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Mississip-oi, C, Lyle (October 2^5): Soeciiiens of N, lecontsi Fitch 
on pine received from Jefferson County on September 29 with a 
report of moderate coj;iai‘^;3. 
irAimrcKFT PDJjS SHOO'f ( nhyacioni? frustrana Corns 
IvlasspcViuGetts, A, I. Bourne (October 24); Spmnleo 'vere received on 
Au.;^urrt 20 of injured shoots of pine, first obser ved fron art air- 
l^lane circlinf^' over the Civoe and the adjacent iel-u':!ds. Specimens 
v/ere t hon from an area of dama£:c;d 'cincs from Edpartov/n, on 
•“lartha’c Tine yard, 'The observer reported, that the vvhole p.ntch of 
pine trees looked like a ^^reat bro',Pi sorn.o.d out as seen from 
the air, fhe area was later visited and aarioles collected, 
Identific.-itio ■ confirned by Fedsr'l laboratories at hew Ka.ve:i, 
Tennessee, G, M, Bentley (October 2S): Bcjported as c--nsing injury to 
pines on the campus of Colniabia ihilitary Ac"demy at Columbi?., 
Ivlaury County. 
i'.’lississippi, N, L, Douglass (October 26): Injury to young pine growth 
reported as common at Grenada, 
A NSEDLSK'IIhFR ( Reenrvarig, sp, ) 
California, J, H, miller (October 10)j An active infestation, fou’u3 
by J, S. Patterson southeast of Mono Lake, Mono County, had 
caused serious dari.-ge to oinou pine. This is the first record 
of defoliation of ninon in Cplifornirr. arers by this needleninor, 
which is o.ooarently very close to R, mulleri Busck, It is of 
considerable importance as the Mono and Piute Indi3.no use this 
area for gathering sunnlies of pinon nuts, Annroximately JtOOO 
acres h?ve been defoliated and of this 2,000 .ocres have been 
killed oiitrigh'C, A-onroximately 90 oercent of the needles of the 
gro'.vth orior to 193^ hsve been mined, 
PINS APHID ( Cinara sti-obi Pitch) 
CormectiC!.it end Mew York. S, P. iVlt (October 22): Pine awhido, 
narticixlarly this sweeies, nave been sufficiently abundnr.t to 
C"use Ki.j’terial in.jury to white pinos, both on \vestern Long Island, 
N, Y, , pjno in southwestern Connecticut, 
A SChLFi (Toume;.''ella nuir.isrn.isticuin Pet, and McDan, ) 
Ohio, F, T7, Menoenhall (September I6): Chinese pine C pinus sinensis ) 
infested with a acele insect found in a nursery at Hewar’e, Licking 
County (dot, by H, Mor''"ison), Lepidoutcrous l?rrvae, probably 
Laetllia coccidlvora Ccst. , also found on the twig, are nresurned. 
to have been feeding on tiae scple (d.9t, by C, Heinrich), 
