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before remedy could be applied. Abundant at Alto, Cornelia, Commerce, 
and Esom Hill. More reports of injury from this insect this year than 
in any year of the past seventeen. 
Mississippi. 0. Lyle (April 2U) : Specimens of this aphid were received from 
Hat tie sour g on April 21. It was causing serious injury to peach. 
California. L. D. Christendon (April 23) J During the past two weeks we have 
noted a rather severe infestation of black peach aphids in an orchard in 
Cherry Valley (near Beaumont). 
TARNISHED PLANT BUG ( Lygus pratensis L. ) 
Virginia. A. M. Woodside (April 17): The tarnished plant bug is rather abun- 
dant on peach trees. 
PEAR 
PEAR PSYLLA ( Psyllia pyricola Foerst.) 
New Hampshire. J. G. Ccnklin (April 23): On April 19 the pearpsylla was 
very active on pear trees in Durham. The females were ovipositing freely 
and it is evident that a rather severe infestation will follow. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April): Eggs of the pear psylla 
were first observed in the Hudson Valley about April 7 and by the last of 
the month they were abundant in many orchards. In western New York 
adults have appeared but few eggs have been laid. 
CHERRY 
BLACK CHERRY APHID ( Myzu s cerasi F. ) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April): Eggs of the black 
cherry aphid are hatching in the lower Hudson Valley. 
RICE WEEVIL (Sit ophi lus oryzae L. ) 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (April 19): The rice weevil has been observed 
frequently within the past few days feeding in the open blossoms of wild 
cherry.: At Chadbourn the weevil seems to be feeding on the pollen in 
these flowers. 
PLUM 
TENT CATERPILLARS (Malacosoma spp. ) 
California. S. Lockwood (April 20): A tent caterpillar, M. constri cta 
Stretch, in somewhat more than normal numbers, is infesting prunes in 
Sonoma County. The California tent caterpillar (M. californica Pack.) 
is much more abundant, and some prunes in Sonoma County are almost com- 
pletely infested, with from one to seven nests per trei . 
