New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 453 



orchard at Charlottesville, Va., were found infested. Subsequent 

 investigations showed that these trees came originally from a 

 New Jersey nursery. In 1894 the scale was found on Long Island 

 and other points in this State. 



Present distribution. — According to Messrs. Howard and Mar- 

 latt* the scale was known in 1896 in Alabama, Arizona, Califor- 

 nia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Massa- 

 chusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Ohio, 

 Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and 

 British Columbia. In addition to the above states it is now 

 known to occur in several localities in Michigan and in the prov- 

 inces of Canada. In this State it has been found in the following 

 counties: Suffolk, in several orchards; Queens, in three nurseries; 

 Kings, in one small orchard near Brooklyn ; Orange, in an orchard 

 at New Milford (Dr. Lintner); Dutchess, in an orchard near Pough- 

 keepsie; Columbia, in an orchard near Germantown and two at 

 Kinderhook; Tompkins, on ornamentals on the campus of Cornell 

 University; Seneca, two trees, which have been burned, in an 

 orchard near Farmer; Cayuga, in an old nursery near Union 

 Springs. 



Food plants. — The following list of food plants, which includes 

 those observed up to 1896, is given by Dr. J. B. Smith.f It will 

 be of especial interest to nurserymen and hence is given here in 

 full. Linden, enonymus, almond, peach, apricot, plum, cherry, 

 locust, spiraea, raspberry, blackberry, rose, hawthorne, cotoneas- 

 ter, pear, apple, quince, flowering quince, gooseberry, currant, 

 flowering currant, persimmon, acacia, elm, osage orange, English 

 walnut, pecan^ hickory, alder, chestnut, oak, birch, weeping wil- 

 low, laurel leaved willow, Kilmarnock willow, sumach and grape. 

 A list published in July, 1897, by Prof. F. M. Webster| includes 

 black walnut, Carolina poplar, lombardy poplar, golden leaf 

 poplar, European willow, cut leaf birch, flowering peach, 

 flowering cherry^ American linden, European linden, hardy 

 catalpa and mountain ash in addition to those given above. 



*U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Ent. Bui. 3, new series. 

 tN. J. Agl. Exp. Stas. Rept. 1896, p. 547. 

 :Ohio Agl. Exp. Sta. Bui. 81, p. 184. 



