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PUTS 30 IX WOHM ( Poctino ahora r:ossypiella Sauiid. ) 
Florida. Bureau of Plant Quarantine News Letter Ho. 34 (October 1): The daily 
collection and examination of cotton blooms from the plats at Chapman Field 
were continued throughout the month, with negative results. From tine to time 
okra and other hibiscus blooms have also been examined. On August 23 two pink 
boll worm larvae -"ere found in hibiscus "blooms. The plant on which the irsect 
was found is a hybrid, Hibi scus rosa- sinensis . Immediate!' 7 after this finding, 
two inspectors began an intensive examination of hibiscus blooms, and at this 
time 10,000 have been inspected without any further specimens having been 
found. It would therefore appear that there was no general infestation in 
hibiscus. 
3HAH THRIPS ( Heliothrips fasciatus Per-;. ) 
California. E. 0. Essig (September 22): 3ean thrips are abundant and injurious 
to cotton in San Joaquin Valley (T'erced County) where plants were in need of 
soil moisture. 
FOREST Ai!D SHAPE THEE INSECTS 
FALL CA1TX3R WORM (Also phi la ponetaria Earr. ) 
Vermont. K. L. Bailey (October 24): On October 18 the first female adults of 
fall canker worms were noted at Burlington, where damage by larvae was heavy 
in spring. 
OIAHT APHID ( lo—hi-kima c?.ryae Harr. ) 
Hew York, New Jersey, and Hew England. E. ?. Felt (October 2~): The -riant aphid 
was reported as extremely abundant on lindens at Lawrence, L. I., and on oak 
in eastern Hew England and at West Orange, ". J. 
ASH 
CARPEHTHR '.70?:.: ( Prio.-.o — shs robiniae Peck. ) 
Forth Dakota. J. A. Hunro (October): In a survey carried on during the summer 
b' r A. C. Fox, the carpenter worm was found at JCloten on ash, at Williston, 
Sentinel Butte, Belfield, Hebron, and Medina, on green ash, and at Fargo on 
ash, soft maple, and American elm. 
Nebraska. H. H. Swenk (October 20): ^e carpenter worm was reported damagi ; 
ash trees in Boone County on October 7. 
BIRCH 
3R0"ZE 3T V C" 30RSR ( Anril us an"ius Cory) 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (September 27): White birch trees throughout the 
State have suffered severely from attack this summer. Many of the trees 
