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worns in Missouri will "be lighter thin for many years past. 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (September 22): Cool weather early in September 
prevented a heavy late -emergence of moths 'in the Yakima Valley; the 
high point from August 12 to 18 was the peak. There are as a consequence 
fewer late worms in the fruit. 
RED-HUMPED CATERPILLAR (Schizura concinna S. & A.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (September 2U) : A colony of worms on apple foliage was 
sent in fron Magnolia on September 15. 
APPLE LEAFHOPPERS (Cicadellidae) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (September 2k): The late brood of the white 
apple leaf hopper, Typhi ocyba pomaria McAtee, is not more than normally 
abundant; in comparatively few orchards has there been any serious 
spotting of the leaves or fruit. 
Connecticut. P. Garman (September 22): Infestation of white apple leaf hopper 
is from moderate to heavy in New Haven County. 
Virginia. W. J. Schcene (September 2^) : The white apple leaf hopper is 
generally present in apple orchards and is causing annoyance to pickers 
and some loss due to the specking of the fruit. 
Illinois. W. P. Flint (September 2<+):_ Apple leafhoppers have been extremely 
abundant in nearly all commercial orchards in western and southern 
Illinois. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (September 25): Adult apple leafhoppers, principally 
Erythroneura comes maculata Gill. , are present in great numbers in 
apple orchards in central Kentucky and have caused considerable defolia- 
tion. 
EUROPEAN RED MITE ( Paratetranychus pilosus C. & F.) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (September 2k): There is a very extensive 
bronzing of foliage in many of the larger apple orchards of the State 
resulting fr^m late-season abundance of European red mite. During the 
latter part of the sunmer more red mites were present generally through- 
out the orchards than for many years. 
PEACH 
COTTON LEAF 70RM ( Alabama argillacea Hbn.) 
Missouri. W, F. Turner (September- 25) : One peach grower in Scott County 
has a considerable planting of Henrietta peaches, which are just getting 
ripe. Adults of the cotton caterpillar hive rained most of the fruit 
by feeding on it. This grower states that he has the same experience 
every 3 or k years and that he is pulling up the entire block this yoar. 
