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on tree trunks was limited largely to trees which matured late 
varieties of peaches last fall. Location of pupae r;as not con- 
fined to near ground surface but scattered over trunk and even 
on older sid~ branches. No feeding of larvae noticed yet. 
PE/CH TWIG BORER ( Anarsia lineatella Zell.) 
Mississippi R« W» Karned (May 29): Peach twigs that showed injury probably 
caused by the peach tv-i/r borer have been received from several 
localities during the past few weeks. Most of the complaints 
have come from the northern section of tie State. 
LESSEE PEACH TREE BORER (Aegeria pi ctipes G, & R. ) 
Georgia 0. I. Snapp and H, S. Swingle (May 15); Adults are no" emerg- 
ing in the orchard' at Fort Valley. 
GREEN PEACH APHID ( Kyzus persic ae Sulz.) 
Oregon Don C, Mote (May 11 ): T^e green peach aphid is reported by 
Mr, Wilbur to be liter than, usual this year. First noted on 
prunes in Umatilla. County on M s y 2 and none found as yet on 
peach, 
BLACK PEACH APHID ( Anurbuhis ;oersicae -ni ^er Smith) 
Ner York Weekly Hews Letter, IT, Y, State College cf Agriculture, May 
14,1328,. Orange County (Sidney J nes): The black peach aphid 
~as found quite abundantly on young peach trees near Warwick, 
Virginia V, r 4 S, Abbott (May 10): A heavy infestation on young peach 
trees is reported for the first time in six or eight years at 
Vienna. 
TARNISHE3 PLANT £UG ( Lyaus oratensis L.). 
Hew York C* R« Crosby and assistants* abstract from Weekly News Letter, 
N, Y* State College of Agriculture, Hay 14,1923: The tarnished 
plant bug is reported as unusually abundant and doing con- 
siderable damage in Ontario, Wayne, and Niagara Counties. The 
insect is also reported as being observed in Chautauqua County, 
Illinois ,'. P, Flint (May 17): Bugs have been found on peach at about 
the normal period, but in such small numbers that only a moder- 
ate amount of cat .feeing is anticipated. 
ROSE CHAFER (Macrodactylus subspinosxxs Fab, ) 
North Carolina R, ,V, Leiby (May 23): Several complaints of peach and apple 
foliagi injury have been received recently. One correspondent 
at Raleigh reported the death of 15 three-weeks-old chickens 
from < atin, t e adult beetles which were found upon dissection 
in t, : Lr crco. 
