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a very large percentage of shriveled eggs. This is also confirmed by 
reports which we have received from Connecticut. 
Connecticut. W. E. Britton (March 23): Fruit aphid eggs are scarce on twigs. 
New York. P. J. Parrott (March): Grain aphid ( Rhopalosiphum prunifoliae Fitch) 
■ and green aphid (A. pomi ) eggs survived the winter fairly well and are 
moderately abundant. 
New Jersey. T. J. Headlee, R. C. Burdette, and D. F. Driggers (March): Apple 
aphids (A. pomi ) are moderately abundant. 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (March 23): Fruit aphid eggs are moderately abundant 
over the State. 
West Virginia. L. M. Peairs (March 24): Fruit aphid eggs are moderately 
abundant at Morgan town. 
Georgia. C. H. Alden (March 19): Fruit aphid eggs are moderately abundant on 
trees at Cornelia. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 21): Aphid eggs are less abundant than usual. 
Mississippi. J. P. Kislanko (March 20): A. pomi is scarce at Hattiesburg. 
Stem mothers were observed on quince. 
Oregon. D. C. Mote (March 24): Fruit aphids are out in great numbers - more 
numerous than normally in the Willamette Valley. 
California. E. 0. Essig (March 22): The green apple aphid, A. pomi , was 
present in apterous form all winter on Cotoneaster in the San Francisco 
Bay region. It is now abundant in many places. 
APPLE LSAFHCPPIRS (Cicadellidae) 
New York. P. J. Parrott (March): Apple leafho-oper i eggs on wood brought into 
the greenhouse are hatching. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 20): A red and white leafhopper, Erythroneura sp., 
hibernated in large numbers in apple orchards at Troy. 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus perniciosus Comst.) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (March 28): There were very few living insects on bark 
received from a survey in the vicinity of Brattleboro, Windham County. The 
scale is found in only two or three localities in Vermont including the 
one mentioned. 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (March 28): Professor Whitcomb of Waltham made 
extensive counts on San Jose scale from orchards which had been subjected 
to varying degrees of temperature, with the following results: Orchards 
with minimum recorded temperature of— 30° F. , 89.3 percent of the scale was 
dead; -22° F. , 75 percent dead; and -18° F. , 70.1 percent dead. 
