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along the levee of the Mississippi River at Greenville, 
on August 2, were sent to the United States National Museum 
for identification, and -sere tentatively identified by Mr. 
W* S» Fisher as Haltica bimarginata. 
INSECTS AFFECTING GREENHOUSE 
AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 
Indiana 
Neb raska 
North Carolina 
Massachusetts 
Michigan 
BLA.CK BLISTER BEETLE ( Epicauta pennsylvanica DeG«) 
J* J* Davis (October l): The black blister beetle was 
destructive to flowers at Gary on September 2. 
M» RVSwenk (September 1-October l): Growers of cultivated 
asters reported rather marked injury to the blossoms this fall 
by the black blister beetle. 
MARGINED BLISTER BEETLE ( Epicauta cinere a marginata Fab.) 
C* H« Brannon (September 29): This insect is causing wide- 
spread damage to flowering plants of various kinds. Severe 
damage to clematis at Magnolia. 
PLANT BUGS (Miridae) 
A, I* Bourne (October 24): Throughout the State as a whole , 
the common tarnished plant bug(Ly_gus pratensis Fab*)and allied 
species four-lined plant bug ( Poecilocapsus lineatus Fab.) 
Were found to be unusually abundant on practically all flower- 
ing shrubs in both plantings- and home gardens. From reports 
which we have had, we have come to the conclusion that they 
have been more abundant than. is usually the case or else have 
devoted their attention more particularly to this type of plants 
rather than more general' feeding. 
A CHRYSOMELID BEETLE ( CallU'rapha rhoda walshiana 
31a tch.) 
R* H» Pettit (October 11): A rather unusual attack by a 
chrysomelid beetle on pupple leaf plum was reported from 
Detroitt on the first of October, The beetle, which proved to 
be Calligrapha rhoda var. walshiana Blatch. , as determined by 
Mr. L, G. Gentner of this department, was feeding on purple 
leaf plum in ornamental plantings on an estate near Detroit. 
The beetle is generally considered to be rather rare. 
Nebraska 
ASTER 
PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER BEETLE ( Chauliognathus p ennsylvanicas 
Corns t, ) 
M» H. Swenk (September 1-October l): This dneect is re- 
ported injuring asters. 
