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The cabbage maggot is generally serious over the New England, 
Middle Atlantic, and Central States* In Iowa this pest has assumed 
economic importance only within the last few years and it seems 
to be increasing in destructiveness very rapidly. 
About the middle of the month a rather severe outbreak of the 
diamond-back moth occurred on cabbage in South Carolina. This insect 
has also been reported from Mississippi. 
The onion maggot is reported as doing considerable damage in 
Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa, 
The asparagus beetle v;as destructive in Ames, Muscatine, and 
Dcs Moines, Iowa this spring. This insect appears to be moving 
westward very rapidly. 
The Mexican bean beetle was discovered at College Park, Md. , 
this month and has made very considerable territorial expansion 
in North Carolina. In the original infested territory in Alabama 
the vlnter survival was lower than any season on record. 
The lean leaf beetle has been unusually abundant in the two 
Carolinas this season, in some places completely defoliating the 
plants. 
The outbreak of Chilo simplex Butler recently discovered in 
the Hawaiian Islands (Oahu) is now known to be infesting .n 
1,500 and 2,000 acres of rice. The infestation is so intense that 
from two rice stools 40 and 50 adult moth: jre r red. 
The pine leaf scale is reported as seriously abundant in certain 
parts of '.Tisconsin and Nebraska. 
A species of Neodiprion has completely defoliated pitch pinea 
in many places in Connecticut. This is probably the Bame Bp ciea 
that was reported late in June as defoliating pitch pines in Clinton 
County, New York, in which State it opoeared for the first ti Last 
year. 
A curculionid beetle Thylac it. s ir.aanu s L., has been dis- 
covered attacking various 6] of sr . in eastern Mas tts 
nurc . los. It has also been found on most of the pines in these 
Lne, It is recorded ai Ling on birch 
foliage in pr.rts of Europe and, in ling's catalogue ( b - en 
collected in Missouri. 
A f outbreak of t spruce beetle, which is 
bel bed about 1922, ' - uiscovercd in 
noith- 1 Maine, 
The cork oak midge, Pla/^iotrochus sub-. . i., ras d: 
for th( Ll it I imc in L . Lea l'-. I . .c insect has been 
taken from San Jose, Santa ( , ! in Francisco, and Pasadena, 
