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AS3?ER APHID ( Aphi s middlctoni Thos.) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September 20): The.. aster aphid was the cause of com- 
plaints of damage to asters in Madison County that were received during the 
first week in September. 
BARBERRY 
A PYRALID ( Omphalocera dentosa Grote) 
Connecticut. R. B. Friend (August 30): A number of Japanese barberry bushes in 
Branford were severely defoliated. 
COTOKSASTER 
LEAF CRHMPLER ( Mineola indiginella Zell.) 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (August 18): I am sending a branch of cotoneaster 
from Fargo that is infested with worms which are evidently skeletonizers. 
They have caused considerable damage of Hate to several of these hedges in 
Fargo. (Det. by C. Heinrich.) 
CR2PE MYRTLE 
CREPE MYRTLE APHID ( Myzocallis kahawaluokalani Kirk.') 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (September): Crepe myrtle in the vicinity 
of Perkinston is very heavily infested. 
EUONYMUS 
EUONYMUS SCALE ( Chionaspi s euonymi Comst.) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (September 27): The euonymus scale 
has been very injurious to euonymus plants in various parts of Tidewater. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (September): The euonymus scale has been 
observed in many cases causing the death of shrubs in several instances 
throughout this district. (Works in Yalobusha, Grenada, and Montgomery 
Counties. ) 
GLADIOLI 
GLADIOLUS THRIPS ( Taeniothrips gladioli M. & S.) 
Maine. H. B. Peirson (September 8): The gladiolus thrips is very abundant in 
Bar Harbor. 
Rhode Island. A. E, Stene (September 28): Gladiolus growers are having more 
trouble than .ever with the thrips. 
Illinois. W. P. Flint (September 22): The gladiolus thrips has been found at 
Arlington Heights. This is the first record of this insect in the State. 
