The rose chafer is epidemic throughout New England and the Kiddle 
Atlantic States, south to Virginia and through the Ohio River Valley, and north- 
ward to Michigan, while the southwestern species, Macrodactylus unif ormis , is 
reported as very abundant in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. 
Scutellista cyanea has been discovered in New Orleans feeding on the 
black scale. This parasite was sent to Dr. H. A. Morgan, then located at Baton 
Rouge, in 1896 by Doctor Howard . There iSj no record, however, of its having 
been taken in the field in Louisiana until the present discovery. It is possible 
that its occurrence here is due to this introduction. 
The sweet potato weevil is now authentically reported from Stephens County, 
Okla., where larvae were collected early in June. 
The Mexican bean beetle is apparently spreading more rapidly than last 
year in South Carolina, and is now well established over central Tennessee and 
Kentucky. The last report placed the insect very near the Ohio line. 
Wirewonrs are very seriously infesting onions in the northeastern part of 
Indiana, where a company reported losses amounting to from $15,000 to $20,000. 
The July 20 survey of the cotton boll weevil is contained in this number, 
the pest having been observed over practically the entire Cotton Belt during July. 
The cotton worm was ooserved on July 6 at Baton Rous.fi, La., where mature 
larvae were collected. It appeared in Hidalgo County, T$sA, as early as June 
10, and by July 14 an outbreak extended from Brownsville along the coast as far 
as Liberty County and inland to the main line of the Southern Pacific Railway. 
By July 20 leaf worms '-ere collected at Forest City, Ark. 
The dandelion root aphid is reported as attacking a number of ornamental 
plants in Indiana and Tennessee, and the iris borer is generally abundant from 
Maine to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 
A new pest is recorded in this number. The European weevil Phy llobius 
oblongus . known as a pest to apple buds in England, has been found rather numerous 
on elms in the city parks in Rochester, N. Y. 
The arborvitae leaf-miner and the elm spanworm are both recorded as 
prominent at several points of the northeastern part of the United States. 
A geometrid moth, Eulyna hastata . is occurring in enormous swarms over 
Maine and northern New Hampshire . 
