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rULIZPJS ROSE 3£i3TLE (Pan_tornoras fuller! Horn) 
I'lorth J. Iv. 'Teiihet (Septein"ber l): ^LLthof-vih dcjnage to soylDeans is neg- 
Cc?xolina ligiols, this infestation is interesting as the first 2QiOT;n 
occ-urrehce of this insect on cultivated crops. Soulier's rose 
beetle is unusually clDundrnt in this locality this yecr , and is 
defoliating holly and s-eet "oay every.vher e. 
SORC-HJ}.! 
■ CHINCK HJCt (Blissus leuco7Jterus Say) 
liansas J. w. IxColloch (Septeiaher 19) t The excessive rainfall this san- 
nier checiced the chinch bug outhreaic in the State. Only one re- 
port of dr-Tiage has "been received since the first of august. At 
Jetmore some injury tras reported August lb to late sorghum vhich 
-.-.•as being gror.ni as a feed crop. 
COEIT SaH '"QH:.: ( Kcliothis obsoleta Fab. ) 
Kansas J. ^. -IcColloch (September 13) The corn ear \-rcm is injviring 
the heads of Ic^vfir at Oi.narron. 
D ■£ G I D U U S - ? R U I T I 1^7 S E G T S 
::isc5LLAi:scus fsdsrs 
JftPiCSSE SELTLS ( Popilli a .ia-ponica Fe-rm. ) 
■"aryland L. 3. Srdth (September 2S) : One Ja-anese beetle v/as collected 
during September at Ferryville , Cecil Gounty, rhich is outside of 
the previously ■cio-.'n infested area, a hearing has been called 
for October o at ',7hich the extension of the Quarantine to the 
ner: area -,111 be considered. 
General "lonthly •;*e-7S Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, l^o. loO 
statement (Augu.st, I527): TiTjaia -pomlliavora . an imported parasite of the 
Japanese beetle, -.•hich r/as recovered for the first time last sea- 
son, has made excellent lorogress during the present season. It 
has nc-r been recovered from three of the four original liberations, 
and is abundant over an area of more than three sQ.uare miles. At 
the center of the colony it has been destroying as many as 25 
Japanese beetle larvae per square yard of ground. TJithout seri- 
ously depleting the "mother" colony, enough iir-.terial has been 
collected for nine ne- colonisations -.Tidely scattered over the 
heavily infested area. 
SAZ JOSE SGALE (^spidiotus -perniciosus Comst . ) 
j Michigan 
2. Ii. Jrettit (September 27): a note of interest is the finding of 
