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This species was originally described from Florida and at that 

 time recorded on the leaves of mulberry, linden, Tilia ameri- 

 cana, French mulberry, Calicarpa americana, sweet gum, 

 Liquidamber styraciflua, American holly, Ilex opaca 

 and less frequently on Red Bay, Persea borbonia. In addition, 

 Doctor Britton l has recorded the occurrence of the variety, 

 maculata Morr., in Massachusetts and Connecticut on ash, horn- 

 beam, Catalpa and hickory, and states that this species should also 

 occur in New Jersey. 



FOREST TREE PESTS 



Spruce bud moth (Tortrix fumiferana Clem.) . The 

 abundant nights of this small, brownish moth have attracted atten- 

 tion here and there for several years, being indications of the insect 

 breeding in large numbers. There has been considerable injury to 

 spruces in certain Adirondack localities, though the damage does not 

 seem to approach that recorded from sections in Maine. 



The past season was marked by complaints of the work of the 

 caterpillar upon ornamental spruces from Tarry town, Albany and 

 Schenectady. In one instance, at least, the blue spruce was attacked. 

 The reports were received early in June at the time the small, brown- 

 ish caterpillars, about three-fourths of an inch long and rather easily 

 recognized by the slightly flattened body and the series of large, 

 yellowish white tubercles or warts, were full grown. Early spraying 

 with arsenate of lead, using 3 pounds to 50 gallons of water, is the 

 most promising method of checking this insect whenever its abund- 

 ance necessitates remedial measures. 



Ugly nest cherry worm (Archips cerasivorana Fitch) . 

 The silken webs of the yellow, black-headed caterpillars of this 

 chokecherry leaf feeder were unusually abundant the latter part of 

 June in southern Rensselaer and northern Columbia counties. In 

 some cases extended patches along the roadside were covered with 

 the webs of this caterpillar. The full-grown larvae are lemon- 

 yellow, clothed with scanty, fine, yellowish hairs, the head, the 

 prothoracic shield, the anal shield and the true legs being black, 

 while the mouth parts are brown. Transformations occur within 

 the webs, the pupae wriggling partly out of the nest before the dis- 

 closure of the variable yellow and leaden-blue moths. This leaf- 

 feeder confines itself to chokecherry and is therefore of no economic 

 importance though its conspicuous nests frequently arouse appre- 

 hension. 



1 Insects of New Jersey, p. 120, 1909. 



