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SPRUCE 
A SAWELY ( Pikonema dimmockii Cress.) 
Michigan, H, J. MacAloney (September lU); A few full-gro^vn larvae of 
this spruce /sawfly., found on ^ on August '8 in the Marquette 
National Forest, Upper Peninsula. 
■ EUROPEAN SPRUCE SATOY ( Diprion polytomum Htg.) 
New England and New York, J, V. Schaffner, Jr. (October 29): An inten- 
sive survey of’' spriice areas in ^New Hampshire, Vermont, .and .New York 
showed that the sawfly waS present in at least small numbers wherever 
inspections were made, A very heavy infestation occurs on Mt. 
Monadnock and -on Pack Monadnock and Temple mountains near the Peters- 
boro-Temple town line, south-central New Hampshire, A medium to 
hea\^ infestation. .QC.C^m.s,. in, .tj>p, northern part ' of the to\7n of Pitts- 
burg near Mt, Kent, in extreme northern New Hampshire. In southern 
Vermont a very heavy infestation occurs in the towns of ' Wilmington 
and Marlboro, while medium to hor.v;^'' infestations occur on M;t. Ellen, 
Mt. Abraham, Mt, "Battell (in central Vermont) and Green Peak in 
Dorset. The he.avy 1937 infestation at Lincoln, ’ Vt, , seems to be 
reduced somewhat this season. In’ New York a- number of medium to 
heavy infestations were found- on spruce plantations in Columbia, 
Dutchess, Ulster, Otsego, and Chenrungo Counties. It is also numerous 
in some of the older stands in the Adirondacks, but this season no 
infestations with noticeable defoliation were found there. No survey 
\7ork was done in Maine this summer but reports indicate that there 
has been an increase in the- intensity of the infestation in northern 
Maine, and about four to’Tiis in Washington County arc reported as 
heavily infested that were only lightly infested last year, 
. .TULIPTREE 
TULIPTREE SCALE ( Toumeyella 1 iriodendri Gmel.) 
Mississippi. C, Lyle (October 26); Tuliptree twigs showing a medium 
infestation sent in on Se'otember 22 from Yazoo City. 
WAL’iJUT 
WALNUT CATERPILLAR (Datsma inte,^errima G. & R.) 
Nebraska. M. H, Swenk (October 2l): Walnut trees reported infested on 
September 28 in Otoe County, 
WILLOW 
POPLAR AND WILLOW BORER ( Cryptorhynchus lapathi L») 
Oregon, D. C, Mote (October): Young larvae observed in ijillo^v and poplar 
at Portland. 
, . Al'T APHID ( Lachnus sp.) 
Michigan, R, Hutson (October 22): Ve^y abundant on willow at East Lansing, 
Owosso, Ionia, Ka,lamazoo, Benton Harbor, Dundee, Detroit, and Ann Arbor, 
