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A BEETLE ( Diplo taxis frondicola Blanch.) 
Mississippi R. 17. Earned (May IV): A correspondent ot Brookhaven sent 
specimens on May 2 with the following comments: "They have 
completely destroyed one of my rose tushes, by eating the foliage 
and buds, ■'■hey keep every particle of green eaten off. They 
work at night and in the mornings I find them just under the 
soil near the roots of the rose "bushes." (Determined by J. M. 
Langston.) 
ROSE APHID ( 1 'aero sip hum rosae L.) 
Ohio E. 17. Mendenhall (April 30): I find the rose aphids are be- 
ginning to put.. in their appearance. (May 27): The rose aphid 
is doing considerable damage to bush honeysuckle at Columbus. 
SPINY ROSE GALL ( Rhodites bicclor Harr.) 
North Carolina C. H. Brannon (May 4): The spiny rose gall,,R. bicolor , was 
sent in from ^arthage, where it was attacking rose. 
SUMAC 
SUMAC ELEA BEETLE ( Blepharida rhois Forst.) 
Kansas R. L. Parker (April 26): The sumac flea beetle is very nu- 
merous on smoke bush ( Rhus cotinus ) and sumac (R. glabra ) at 
Manhattan. The adi.il ts are eating newly emerged leaves of smoke 
bush and many egg masses are on sumac. Adults are gouging into 
buds and destroying them. 
INSECTS A I T A C K I S G M A LI AID 
DOMESTIC A N I U A L S 
MOSQUITOES (Culicinae) 
New Hampshire P. R. Dowry (May 17): Mosquitoes have become exceedingly 
common in the woods near Durham during the last week, the prin- 
cipal species being Aedes communis BeG. , A. trichurus Dyar, 
and A. excruci-ns La Ik. 
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FLEAS (O tenoceVaqlus spp . ) 
Gener-1 F. C. Bishopp (May 25): A number of reports of infestations 
of house* by fleas, C. c.anis Curt, and CM felis Bouche,have 
been coming in during the past month, 'The reports emanate from 
various sections of the country, Pa., N.Y., Kan., and '".ash. , 
comprising the list of States from which complaints have been 
received. 
