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NEW A1TD LITTLE-KNOWN FESTS 
The coreid Phtliia picta Drury vas re-orted as very destructive to 
tomato near Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Tex., during the fall. A similar 
occurrence in the fall of 1892, at Bexar, Bexar County, Tex., was recorded 
by Riley and Howard (insect Life, April 1893:- 282). Van Duzee, in his 
Catalogue of the Heraiptera of America llorth of Mexico, lists the insect from 
California. E. A. Schwarz (Froc. Ent. Soc« Wash., I: 224) records finding 
the insect attac]cing tomato near Biscayne Bay and Lake Worth, Fla. It is 
very common in the West Indies, vhere it injures solanaceous plants and 
sometimes attacks cotton. 
The lea.fhopner Cicadula maidis De Long and Wolcott was described in 
1923 from a specimen collected on corn in Puerto Rico. It also occurs in 
Cuba. Its first appearance in the United States was in San Bernardino 
County, Calif., in 1933, and it was found on corn in Los Angeles County in 
1934. A svrvey was conducted that year in California and the leafhopper 
was found to be prebent in Santa Barbara, Kern, San Bernardino, Ventura, Los 
Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. 
A crypto rhynchid weevil was discovered attacking peppers ( Ca'osicum sp. ) 
in Dade County, Fla.-, in November 1931, and was reported again in November 
1933 s when it was determined as Coll g. bismo des, c ubae Boh„ This constitutes 
the first record of this weevil in the United States. It is recorded as 
occasionally attacking peppers in Cuba. 
A bosti-ichid, St ethano pachy s ~aci f i cii s Csy. , was discovered eating holes 
in apples in Chelan County, Wash*, in September. This is the first time this 
insect has been observed damaging fruit. 
Pe ricl i sta hic oria.e Rohw. was described from specimens collected from 
Hi cor?, a glcO.ra. at Charteroak, Huntingdon County, Pa., in May 1314. In April 
1931 the sarvfly was discovered attacking pecan along the coast of Mississippi. 
In 1934 it was re-orted as occurring there in great abundance over a con- 
siderable territory. 
A pyralid, Pa chyzancla periusalis Walk., was reported as attacking 
tomato in greenhouses, and tomato and eggplant in fields near Experiment, 
Ga. This insect has been recorded in literature as occurring on various 
species of solanaceous plants in the Gulf States fron Florida to Louisiana* 
The Asiatic scale insect Odonaspis pcnicillata Green, known as a pest of 
bamboo in China, Ceylon, and India, has been reported on a. few occasions in 
Louisiana. Daring 1934 this pest was recorded as attacking bamboo in 
Mississippi,, 
Parla ; ;o ria o leae Colv. wa.s discovered in November 1934 attacking olives 
near Fres:x . Califo This scale was discovered at Baltimore, Md., in 1927 ? 
attacking California r>rivet, and was reported again this year at College Park, 
Md. During 1932 it was found at Tucson, Ariz., mere it is now well establish- 
ed, and attacks a wide variety of plants, including olive, almond, palms, and 
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