With the short crop of peaches the injury to the fruit "by the oriental 
fruit moth has. aeon. Truer, more serious than usual and the insect seems to he on 
the increase throughout the Middle Atlantic, South" Atlantic," and' East Central 
States. 
Blister heetles arc doing very considerable damage to a great variety of 
crops from New England westward to Nebraska and Kansas. 
Potato leafhoppers with the associated hopperburn are appearing in numbers 
in the northern Middle Atlantic States, westward to Minnesota. 
The potato psyllid with the associated psyllid yellows is quite prevalent 
in parts of Colorado and Utah. 
The Mexican bean beetle has been reported for the first time from New York 
and Cumberland Counties, Maine, and from Bennington and Rutland Counties, Ver- 
mont, these being the northernmost records for the spread of this insect. It 
was also recorded from southwestern Nebraska, this being the first record the 
Survey has received of this insect in that State. 
The harlequin bug is generally prevalent considerably north of its normal 
habitat. 
The elm leaf beetle is being reported as prevalent from New England and 
New York, and local outbreaks have developed at Knoxville, Tenr,, and Parma, 
Idaho . 
The gladiolus thrips is quite generally reported as damaging gladiolus 
flowers from New England throughout the Middle Atlantic States and in Tennessee 
and Minnesota. 
Porty-one cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been reported from 
Maryland and Virginia during this year up to August 17. 
