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noticeable on the yellow birches in Litchfield County in September. 

 It was also received at this office on cut-leaf and other ornamental 

 birches from various localities. 



In addition to the insects mentioned, the usual pests such as the 

 San Jose scale, Aspidiotus perniciosus Comst., the tulip tree scale, 

 Toumeyella liriodendri Gmel., the pine bark aphis, Chermes pinicor- 

 ticis Fitch., the spruce gall louse, Chermes abietis Linn., the woolly 

 maple leaf scale, Phenacoccus acericola King., various aphids, the 

 spiny elm caterpillar, Eiivanessa antiopa Linn., the elm leaf beetle, 

 Galerucella luteola Miill., the red humped caterpillar, Schizura con- 

 cinna S. & A., the white marked tussock tnoth, Hemerocampa leu- 

 costigma S. & A., the fall canker worm, Alsophila pometaria Harr.^ 

 the bumble flower beetle, Euphoria inda Linn., the rose chafer, 

 Macrodactylus suhspinosus Fabr., and the various species of cutworms 

 have all been in evidence. 



Increased interest in the control of the house fly and mosquito nui- 

 sance has been manifested in various parts of the state, by the demand 

 for illustrated lectures and for information regarding these insects. 

 Mosquito control work has been taken up in a number of shore towns 

 and nearly 3,000 acres of salt marsh have been drained the past season. 



NOTES FROM KENTUCKY 



By H. GarmaN), Lexington, Kii. 



The San Jose scale has shown a disposition to extend its distribu- 

 tion in Kentucky with very great rapidity during the past two years. 

 Our recent examinations of the Kentucky nurseries have shown that 

 a larger proportion became infested during 1912 than in any previous 

 year of my experience as state entomologist. Just what this rapid 

 spread is due to would be difficult to explain. I have sometimes sus- 

 pected that nurseries of other states were sending in infested stuff that 

 was not properly fumigated and perhaps not inspected. A rapid 

 growth of interest in fruit growing has accompanied this increase in 

 the prevalence of the scale. Perhaps the two are associated. 



Several other insects have attracted special attention during the 

 past season. One is the chinch-bug, ordinarily not a troublesome 

 insect pest in Kentuckj^ and only appearing locally and occasionally 

 in numbers sufficient to call for treatment. We have had a number of 

 demands for the white fungus with which to destroy chinch-bugs doing 

 mischief in some of our counties along the Ohio River this year. 



