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The asparagus beetle appears to be normally abundant thoughout 
the lie" England and East Central Statec. It is apparently spreading 
slov/ly westward and southward, having been found for the first time 
as far south as Carbondale, Illinois, this spring. 
The Mexican bean beetle made its appearance in the field in Worth 
Carolina on May 21 and in Alabama on April 12. Up to the 15th of 
M.&J. only 1.8 per cent of the beetles had emerged in the hibernation 
cages at Birmingham, 
The striped cucumber beetle is now seriously infesting cucurbit a- 
ceous plants in the lower Mississippi Valley, 
An insect tentatively determined as Chilo simplex Butl* has be n 
reported from the Island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. This is a 
well-known rice pest of the Orient, where it is effectively controlled 
by an egg-parasite. 
Brood II of the periodical cicada is emerging according to schedule 
throughout the Middle Atlantic region, reports having been received 
from I T ev7 Ydrk, Ne-7 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. 
The Virginia records are more extensive and complete than for any previous 
appearance of this brood. 
The elm scurfy scale is being reported in unusual abundance in 
the East Central and North Central States and in Nebraska, 
The pine leaf miner is becoming rather troublesome in eastern 
usetts and Rhode Island. In some localities the trees are already 
broTrn from infestations from this pest. 
Arpyroploce abictana is being reported fro::, northern and western 
Michigan and it seems to be increasing throughout the entire Stat- . 
Damage by termites is being reported from Indiana an: Kansas* 
