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LOCUST BORER (''• r "C°'v rchineac Forst.) 
New York C. R. Crosby (September 19): The locust borer is reported from 
Yonkers as causing some damage to aster fields. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
r- / MITE ( Tarsonemus pel lid us Banks) 
New York C. R. Crosby (September 16): Badly infested plants were received 
from Bull's Head, Stat en Island. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM LEAF-TYER ( Fh.Ivctaenia rubigalis C-uen.) 
Illinois C. C, Cusspton (October 5); The chrys anthem -.a leaf-tyer is slightly 
m<;re numerous in the Chicago district than it usually is at this 
time of the year. 
L ILAC 
LILAC BORER ( P_cd os es ia p vrirK rae Harr ♦ ) 
New York R, E. Horsey (September): Considerable damage has been done in 
our lilac collection as usual this year. We force carbon disulphid 
into the holes, stopping them with grafting wax. We also have, all 
plants on their own roots, as then new sprouts will spring up to 
take the place of any destroyed by borers. 
LJL'.ES 
AN APHID ( Macros iphum lillii Monell) 
New York IvK B. Leonard (August 12): Specimens received from Roy Latham, 
Orient, Long Island, with statement that many plants have been 
killed by the attack of this aphid. 
M AGNOLIA 
TULIP SCALE (Toumeyella lirio dendri C-mel.) 
New York M. D« Leonard (September 14): A tree was reported badly infested 
by this insect at Pawling, N. Y. 
ROSE 
ROSE SAWFLY f Caliroa aethiops Fab.) 
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Nebraska M. H. Swenk (Octooer 1-20 ) : Late injury by the rose slug was 
reported frOm Ce.iar County. 
GREEN JUNE BEETLE (Cctinis n it id a L.) 
D. C. and F. H. Chittenden (October l) : The larvae of the green June beetle 
Maryland • and the green June beetle itself are as abundant this year in the 
-District of Columbia as last, in spite of the activities of birds 
in destroying it. Today I received specimens from bethesda, 7r d . , 
