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Miscvllaneous insects. 
Four moths new to our North .jnerican fauna are recorded this year. 
They are Chrysoclista linruoU-: Clerck on linden near New York City, 
Batodes august io.rana Ha"/, on yew in Victoria, 3. C. Cnephasia longana 
Ha 1 - . reared on strawberry fruit in Oregon, and Lpinotia subviridis 
Heinrich attacking cypress in Snohomish County, Wash. The last species 
res described in 1929 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Must., Vol. 75, p. 15) from 
material collected at San Diego, Calif., and from British Columbia. 
The only other locality from which this species is recorded is 
Eerkeley, Calif. 
The apple fruit worm ( Ar.?yresthia con.j jgella Zell.) T7as observed 
for the first time in the Montesano section of Washington. 
The apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella .Talsh) was found for the 
first time in G-eorgia. 
The first record of the boxwood leaf miner ( Monarthropalpu s buxi 
Labou, ) in the Pacific Northwest was made at Seattle, '.Tash. , on May 18 
of this year. 
An European weevil, Brachyrhinu s cribricollis Gyll.,has beon 
discovered on citrus and privet in Los Angelas County, Calif. 
n very unusual infestation of strawberry crowns by the larvae 
of Chrysobothris pubescens Fall ^as reported from Washington this 
year. A similar report was received from Oregon November, 1928. 
Pseudococcus boninsis Xuwana was recorded for the first time in 
Mississippi, where it was collected at Melton late in March. 
The di ctyospermum scale ( Chrysomphalus dictyospermi Morg.) was 
found for the first time on field grown avocados in Los Angeles County, 
near -the city of Los Angeles. Heretofore this insect has been 
knownyas a greenhouse pest, being particularly prevalent on Kentia 
palms, .w. survey shows the infestation to be rather general in the 
west Adams district of Los ^ngeles with one infestation in Hollywood. 
The filbert bud mite ( Eriophyes avellanae Nal.) was discovered in 
Stamford, Conn., this year. Heretofore this insect has been known in 
the United States only in Oregon and Washington, where it is a pest of 
considerable importance. 
Two heretofore unrecorded species of springtails are doing 
commercial damage to mushrooms in Minnesota and Missouri, Achorutes sp. 
in Minnesota and Schotella sp. in Missouri. 
