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- ■>:'. IRIS • 
■IRIS BORER ( Madrono etua oimsta Grote) 
Bf Mary land. E. N. Cory (September 22): The iris borer is present in Baltimore 
on iris bulbs. : 
•• MAGNOLIA ' 
MAGNOLIA SCALE ( Neolecanium corn uparvum Thro) 
New York. E. P. Pelt (September 23): The magnolia scale 'was somswhat abundant 
and injurious to magnolias in Rochester. 
PHLOX 
PHLOX BUG ( Lopidea media Say) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (September 27): The phlox bug was destructive to hardy 
phlox at Columbus September 8. 
ROSES . 
SUGARCANE BEETLE (E uetheola rugiceps Lee.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (September 23): Damage to several thousand rose- plants in 
a greenhouse at Columbus by adults was found in early September. The damage 
had apparently been done early in August. . Many of the plants had been gnawed 
«•** almost in two just below the ground.- It. is supposed that the beetles came . 
into the greenhouse in the egg stage when the benches were' filled with soil 
from a near-by pasture. By the time the damage was discovered most of the 
beetles had escaped from the greenhouse. 
TAXUS 
. BLACK -VINE WEEVIL ( Brachyrhinus sulcatus Eab . ) 
Massachusetts, and New York. , E. P. Pelt (September 23): The black vine weevil 
has been injurious in Milton, Mass., and has caused considerable injury to 
Taxus in Chappaqua, N. Y. ■ ' . 
INSECTS ATT. AC- KING MAN AND 
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45YE GNATS ( Hippelates spp.) 
Mississippi. R. p. Colrner (September 19): Eye gnats are very numerous in George 
and Greene Counties. 
R0¥E BEETLES (Staphylinidae) 
Alabama. K. L. Cockerham (September 2l): Rove beetles were proving to be a very 
great nuisance in summer cottages on the seashore near Foley. Great hordes 
