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I 1" S Z C T S A ? P n C T I IT G G 3 E 2 1" H U S Z 
A 1" D C H IT A K 3 IT T A L F L A " T S 
WHITS GRUBS ( Plyllopha-ra spp. ) 
Alabama H. Dietrich (October 20): Some azalea "bushes have had all 
their roots eaten away by white grubs. There was nothing 
left except a few white stubs of the larger roots. Loding 
tells :ie that this is the way it works: All azalea bushes are 
heavily nulched with oak leaves to ::ake the proper acid soil 
for their growth:»and to conserve moisture. Now ia the spring 
heavy droves of adult beetles cone to town, settle in the 
trees, and then in the day tine seek shelter in the leaf nulch 
under the azalea hashes. Then they la: r their eggs and as a 
result a large crop of wh'&te grubs is found to feed on the 
azalea roots. Loding tells ne complaints are getting commoner 
all the tine. 
BLUEBERRY ST3I BORER (Oberea nvop s Hald. ) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (October 26): In early October there was 
discovered to be a rather well established infestation of 
0. nyops on various plantings of azalea and rhododendron 
here on the college campus. 
Connecticut E. P. Pelt (October 2.3): The azalea twig borer, 0. nyops . 
was found working in the stems of both azalea .and rhododendron 
at Greenwich. 
TWO-11M0CBD TRTSOPPER ( Pnchenopa b i no tat a Say) 
Massachusetts P. P. Pelt (October 23): Egg nasses of the two-narked tree 
hopper on dogwood '..'ere received from Great Barrington. This 
insect is also very corr-.on or Celastrus or Roxbury waxwork, 
and its work, in connection with ovipositior, has cone to hand 
on '.several occasions. 
A LYGAPID ( Oncopeltis fasciatus rfall. ) 
Virginia C. R. Uillcy (October 23): Several persons have brought in 
specinens of this insect, which seems, to be occurring in 
numbers on various vines and flowers in Richmond. This is 
the first tine we have had complaints. 
A BLACK SCALP ( Saissetia ndgra Hietn. ) 
California E. 0. Sssig (October 20): In August G. P. Ferris called the 
writer's attention to a Pittosporun tree on the Stanford 
Campus which '.vac- rather severely infested. The tree '.van growing 
near a building and nay have been in just the right sort of -a 
