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COTTON FLEA (P sallus ser iatus Lout. ) 
B-c R< Coad: Hie hopper has been reported c-: cotton in antral 
ai ; d Boat&rn Texas, throb hout L a, northern portions 
of Mississippi, throughout Georgia ana South Carolina. However, 
the injury been light at practically all points and. even 
iB south Texas was consid srably lighter than in I92U. 
FOREST ,FD SHADE-TREE INSECT? 
■ EOXEEDER 
Indiana 
Iowa 
Nebraska 
BOXELDER PLANT BUG (lentccoris trivittatus Say) 
J. J. Davis (October 28):, Continue to receive reports of 
great abundance fr on all parts of the State. 
C N* Ainslie (October l6) : This pest has been gradually in- 
cr asing in numbers for several ye srs and is a real nuisance 
this fall on account of its great numbers and its efforts to 
swarm into houses for warmth. 
M. H-, Swenk (September 25'-Gctober 25): The boxelder plant bug 
has been ±out normally abundant and annoying during the period 
covered by this report. 
HACKBERRY 
Nebraska 
Nebraska 
;exas 
HAXJKEERRY NIPPLE GAIL (Pj^Y^ylla celtidis mamma Riley) 
'". E. Swenk (September 25-October 25): Conspicuous deformation 
of hackberry leaves by the psyllid Pachypsyila eel t idi s-mamma 
was reported drrirg the first half of October from localities 
in Nuckolls, Hall, and Dawes Counties. 
A SCALE ( Lecani odi aspis celtidi s Ckll.) 
M. E. Swenk (September 25-October 25): A heavy infestation 
of hackberry trees in Grand Inland, Hall County, with the scale 
insect Lecani odi a spis c eltid is was reported about the middle 
of Sept em "1 
OAK 
AN 0A : C'ATI LPILLAR ("r;rcs undetermined) 
I,. W. Laake (September 30): A UoC-acre post oak grove in the 
Pleasant Grove community, Delias Count", w .'.■ completely 
defoliated by lepidopterous larvae, appar ntly a species of 
tana. A few scattered elm end locust trees in the grove 
in r :d untoucl ed. 
