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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



A state meeting of the entomological workers in Ohio Institutions was held in the 

 Botany and Zoology Building of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, January 15. 

 The business consisted of effecting a temporary organization and the question of 

 permanent organization was discussed^ The following papers were presented: Re- 

 view of Entomological Work in Ohio, by Herbert Osborn; General Reports from 

 Heads of Departments, Organizations; H. A. Gossard, Experiment Station; N. E. 

 Shaw, Division of Orchard and Nursery Inspection; H. Osborn, Department of Zo- 

 ology and Entomology. Ten-Minute Reports by Individual Investigators. (1) 

 Experiment Station. J. S. Houser — Coccidse of Ohio; R. D. Whitmarsh — Nezara 

 hilaris and related species; W. H. Goodwin — -Grapeberry Worm Control; J. L. King — 

 Peach Borers; D. C. Mote — Ox Warble Fly. (2) Division of Nursery Inspection. 

 E. J. Hoddy— Result of Tests of Insecticides and Fungicides; W. H. Evans — Inspec- 

 tion of Imported Nursery Stock; H. J. Speaker — Gypsy Moth Outbreak in Ohio; 

 E. R. King — Apiary Inspection and Bee Diseases. (3) Department of Zoology and 

 Entomology, Ohio State University. Jas. S. Hine — Apiculture Work, Diptera of 

 Ohio; Wm. M. Barrows — Spiders of Ohio; C. L. Metcalf — Insects Related to Health; 

 W. J. Kostir — The Catalogue of Ohio Orthoptera; C. J. Drake — ^Hemiptera-Heter- 

 optera of Ohio. The meeting closed with a discussion of the projects to be con- 

 tinued and inaugurated during the coming year. 



Scurfy Scale on Norway Maple (Leucaspis japonica Ckll.) Last fall we received 

 from the Frost & Bartlett Company, Stamford, Conn., twigs and leaves of Norway 

 maple and also privet showing a somewhat severe infestation by the above-named 

 insect. It was reported as having caused considerable injury. The scale has 

 much the shape of that of Lepidosaphes ulmi Linn., except that it is somewhat 

 broader. It is a small species, being only 1.5 to 2 mm. long and a dull grayish 

 white — pure white when the scale is first secreted. The twig submitted for exami- 

 naton was thickly infested, while small numbers of the scale insects had established 

 themselves at the base of the principal leaf veins, with scattering individual sranged 

 along the veins to the middle of the leaf. The absence of the tricarinate male scales 

 characteristic of Chionaspis, serves at once to distinguish the common scurfy scale 

 from this much rarer form. 



The literature relating to this species is very scanty. It was described in 1897 by 

 Professor Cockerell from specimens taken on broom, shipped from Japan, by Mr. Alex. 

 Craw the preceding year, and subsequently it was found by Mr. Craw on Magnolia 

 souliana and maples, species not indicated, from the same country. There are 

 specimens in the New York State collection on orange, received from Mr. I. Kuwana, 

 Japan, which, while closely allied, do not appear to be identical with the form taken 

 on Norway maple. 



E. P. Felt. 



Mailed February 20, 1915 



