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HOSE SCALE ( Aalacasois ro sae Bouche) 
V/est Virginia. L. M. Peairs (April 24): Tlie rose scale is moderately abundant 
on raspberries in Fayette County. 
Ohio. E. 17. Mendenhall (April 24): I find rose plants and some blackberry 
plantations in Fairfield County badly infested with the rose scale. It is 
not so hard to control, but where the plants are so badly infested it seems 
to be due to neglect. 
ROSE APHID ( Macro siphum rosae L. ) 
Alabama. J. U. Robinson (April 21 ): The rose aphid is moderately abundant on 
roses in Elberta. 
TiXUS 
BLACK VINE T7EEVIL ( Brachyrhinus sulcatus Eab. ) 
Connecticut. '7. S. Britton (April 22): A Taxus plant 3 feet tall had yellow 
leaves and on digging it up the roots had the bark eaten off in patches 
and 5 larvae of this beetle were found, submitted, and identified. Many 
such instances have come to our attention during the past few years. 
GERANIUM 
OBLIQUE-BAKDiffi LEAF ROLLER (Cacpecia rosaceana Harr. ) 
Washington. M. H. Hatch (March 31): Archir>s rosaceana is attacking geranium 
and other plants in the greenhouse on the University campus at Seattle in 
c o n s i de r ab 1 e abundanc e . 
INSECTS ATTACKING M A N A N D 
DOMESTIC A N I M A L S 
MAN 
MOSQUITOES (Culicinae) 
Oregon and Washington. H. H. Stage (April 19): Aedes pullatus Coq. was very 
abundant in the Olympic National forest. Pound in collections of rain 
water in trail. Theobaldia incidens Freeborn was moderately abundant for 
20 miles along upper Hot River. They were not particularly troublesome to 
humans but settled mostly on horses. 
SAND FLY ( Culicoides spp.) 
Georgia and South Carolina. '7. 2. Dove and D. 0. Hall (April): C. cani thorax Hoff. 
was very abundant and annoying during March and the early part of April in 
Brunswick and Savannah, Ga. , and in Charleston, South Carolina. The inci- 
dence had an abrupt decline when the spring tides of April occurred. C. 
dovei Hall is appearing at Savannah, Ga. , (April 20): This species will be 
accompanied by C. melleus Coq. and the two rill be annoying throughout the 
