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A GALL APHID ( Pemphigus n o -ml i t r am s ve r sus Riley) 
ITebraska. H. D. Tate (July 1?) : Infested cottonwood loaves wore submitted 
from Boone County on July 9» 
SPRUCE 
EUROPEM SPRUCE SAUFLY ( Gilpin! a polytona Htg. ) 
Maine, A # E. Brower (July l): Larvae in the field are beginning to spin 
cocoons, 
H, B. Poirson (July IS): Diapause has been of a higher percentage 
than usual. Ho disease of larvae on trees observed. Some new 
cocoons had been spun by July S in western and northern Maine. Found 
on Perk Is lend, near Portland. 
YELLOW-HEADED SPRUCE SAv'JFLY (Pikon ema alaskensis Rohw. ) 
Maine, H. 3. Peirson (July IS): During June this sawfly was abundant in 
places in central Maine. Older infestations yielded a high percent- 
age of parasites from cocoons, nainly Monoblastus sio. and Ichnoutes 
sp. bringing many infestations to a low level. White, red, and Horway 
spruce are preferred to black spruce, end defoliation 'is nuch more com- 
plete than on the last, 
SPRUCE BUDWORM ( Cacoecia funiforana Clem.) 
Maine. A. E. Brower (June 2S ) : A dozen moths taken at light at Augusta. 
Very little balsam or spruce for miles around. These are the first 
specimens collected in 11 years at the light or in the field. One 
pupa cane from Ashland, 
E. 3. Peirson (July l): A few moths taken at light at Augusta; 1 
or 2 moths sent in from Aroostook County,, collected from spruce end 
fir. 
Minnesota, H. J. MacAloney (July S): Infestation reported from the Gun- 
flint ranger district of the Superior national Forest, Specimens 
from spruce and jack pine sent in for determination. Examination 
showed larvae from the different hosts to bo different, and it is 
apparent that both forms are present in s tends in the forest. 
A SPRUCE UESDLE MIHER ( Taniva albolineana Kearf.) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 23): Horway spruce damaged at S -emeus e on 
July 8. 
