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Dr. J. B. Smith, of New Jersey, has called attention in his recent 

 report (1910), p. 344, to the discovery of the European red tail {Dasy- 

 chiria pudihunda L.) in New Jersey. The caterpillar of this moth is 

 capable of being a very troublesome pest, and is somewhat related to 

 the tussock moth. In Europe it is a general feeder and on the author- 

 ity of Doctor Smith frequently entirely defoliates forest areas, and is 

 there recognized as a first class pest, ranking with the gipsy and brown- 

 tail moths. Its life habits are such that it is easily transported with 

 nursery stock, and one of Doctor Smith's inspectors, in fact, found 

 a cocoon from which an adult was bred, in stock imported from France 

 during the winter of 1909-1910. 



Mr. J. W. Chapman, of the entomological laboratory of the Bussey 

 Institution, at Harvard University, has reported on the occurrence 

 of the European smaller elm bark beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) y 

 infesting in very large numbers the old historic elms of Cambridge, 

 Mass. This insect works in company with the wood leopard moth, 

 and the two together have fairly well destroyed the magnificent elms 

 in and surrounding the campus at Harvard University. The writer, 

 this summer, witnessed the uprooting of the enormous moribund, or 

 dead trunks, of these famous old trees, the cost merely of the removal 

 of which was about $30 per tree. Similar injury, charged to the 

 leopard moth only, is reported by Britton and Cormie for the coastal 

 region of Connecticut. [Bui. 169 (1911), Agr. Exp. Sta.] There 

 seems to be no reason to doubt that this Scolytus is firmly established, 

 and it looks very much as though these two insects together would be 

 in the end almost as disastrous to elm in this country as the chestnut 

 disease has been to the chestnut in the forests and parks of New York 

 and adjacent states. 



What bids fair to become a very important apple pest is the apple 

 seed chalcis (Syntotnaspis druparuni Boh.), which has been made the 

 subject of special study by Mr. C. R. Crosby, of the Entomological 

 Department of Cornell Experiment Station (Bui. 265, April, 1909). 

 This insect passes the winter in the larval stage in the apple seeds and 

 can be very easily distributed by apples or apple seeds to all parts of 

 the country. It is a well-known European pest and very likely came 

 to this country with apple seeds imported from France, there being 

 considerable import of such material for growth of seedling stock in 

 this country. The investigations conducted by the Bureau of 

 Entomology in Pennsylvania last year have demonstrated that this 

 insect has spread in destructive numbers into orchards in that state, 

 and in some orchards at least one third of the crop was destroyed by it. 



Among the newly established insect pests of subtropical fruits, 

 perhaps the most important is Pulvinaria psidii, which is one of the 



