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WW AND LITTLE KNOWN FE3TS 
The cherry sawfly leaf miner ( Profenasr collar! s MacG. ) was discovered 
for the first time in Michigan at Grand Hapids, where it was attacking mu- 
rello cherries. This insect has heretofore been recorded only from New 
York and Massachusetts. It was first observed in 1910 damaging cherries 
at Geneva, Germantown, and Schenectady, N. Y. In 1914 MacGillivray de- 
scribed it as a new species. It has continued to be a minor pest in New 
York State since that time, attacking, in addition to cherries, ornamental 
hawthorns. In 1915 Rohwer described a parasite of this insect as Pezopo- 
rus tenthredinarum . 
The leaf-curling apple midge ( Dasyneura mali Kieff . ) has apparently 
established itself at Ipswich, Mass. This is a European insect which ap- 
parently has not previously been recorded from this country. 
The European moth Cnephasia longana Haw,, which was discovered in this 
country for the first time in 1929 as a pest of strawberry and iris in 
Oregon, became quite serious this year in the State of Washington, where 
it was attacking, in addition to strawberries, a number of plants, particu- 
larly the blossoms of bulbous iris. 
During the year the tenebrionid beetle Crypt icus obsoletus Say 1 was 
found injuring strawberries at Long Beach, Miss. The insects were attack- 
ing the immature fruit and also feeding on ripe fruit. This appears to 
be the first record of this insect attacking any economic crons, although 
it is an old species and a native of the southeastern part of the United 
States. 
The Pacific red spider ( Tetranychus -oacificus MacG. ), heretofore known 
only from San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties in California, where it is a 
serious pest of European grapes, extended its range to vineyards in Ercsno, 
Tulare, and Kern Counties. 
A common European weevil, Hyp era rumicis L. , known to attack rhubarb 
and several species of dock (Pumex spp.), is well distributed in this coun- 
try, specimens in the National Museum having been collected from Connecti- 
cut, New York, New Jersey, Iowa, North Dakota,. Kansas, and Oregon, as well 
as from Alberta, Canada. In the United States, however, it had not been 
reported as a pest until this year v^ien it was found seriously damaging 
sorrel ( Pumex acetosella ) by feeding on the leaves and blossoms at Milford, 
Conn. This sorrel was being grown for seed, the crop being grown as a 
garden crop by European gardeners in that State. 
A weevil, Ceutorhynchus tau Lee, was described from Texas in 1876. 
The insect was unheard of from that date to this year, when the larvae 
were found infesting seedling onions near Hobstown, Tex. , ruining a 50- 
acre plantation. It was also found at Paymondsvi 1 . le and Schutenberg in 
the same State, attacking both onion and garlic. 2 
1 M. M. High, U. S. D. A., Bureau of Entomology 
2 Journal of Economic Entomology 25: 1110, 1932. 
