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A beetle usually considered quite raT<e, Calligrapha rhoda var, 
walshiana Blatch., was found seriously defoliating purple leaf plum near 
Detroit, Mich. 
Fleas have occasioned more trouble during the past season than for 
many years, especially in the Southern and Central States. 
• Cattle grubs have not been so numerous this year as during the previous 
4 or 5 years. Srubby hides are running this year from 40 to 50 percent 
as against 75 to 100 per cent in 1927, 
OUTSTANDING- ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1328 
Scouting for the Mexican bean beetle in southern Ontario revealed 
no trace of the insect in any of the. localities in Kent, Essex, Elgin, 
Hal ton and York Counties where it was found, for the first time last year. 
Collections, however, were taken in the townships of r 7alsingham and 
Towns end, Norfolk county; in the township of Markham, York county, and at 
Leamington, Essex county. 
During the present season the European corn borer was found for the 
first time in New Brunswick. Collections were taken at several points in 
Queens and Sunbury counties, indicating an infestation extending from 
Gagetown to Maugerville (15 miles) in the St. John River Valley* No scout- 
ing for extension of infested territory was undertaken in Ontario, as the 
entire corn growing area is known to be infested. Scouting in Quebec, 
however, indicated that very little new territory had become infested dur- 
ing 1928* 
The Colorado potato beetle has been unusually abundant in northern 
Saskatchewan this season. 
The grey-banded leaf-roller, Eulia mariana Fern., has caused more 
severe injury to certain varieties of apples in the Berwick district* 
Nova Scotia, than since its discovery in 1925. 
The cyclamen mite has been found causing injury to strawberries 
in plantations at several points in Ontario and southern Quebec. 
During the present season there has been quite an extensive spread 
of the oriental peach moth in the Niagara peninsula, Ontario, 
The hemlock looper again occurred in severe outbreak form on 
hemlock, in the Muskoka Lakes district, Ontario, and it is expected that 
the outbreak will continue severe next year. There is also an active out- 
break of this species in Saguenay County, Quebec, affecting pure stands 
of balsam over an area estimated at approximately fibur thousand square 
railes. 
The spruce budworra outbreak in the Sudbury district, Ontario, 
