-6i3- 
Connec-ticutr 'IMrner. (Octo'bsr 22): At Hs.raden cozens of l:-rvne of 
Prionus^ Ir.ticollis Drury were j'ound in stunros of scarlet and -white 
oa-CK unrooted hy the hurric-vne. In most cases the trees were not 
sound. . 
PINE 
5AEIK I^EETLES ( Dendroctonus sp-.', ) 
North Cf.rolina. Z, P, .ketcaif (Se-otemher "^O): The southern pino har’e 
beetle (D, frontal Is Zimm, ) is worse than last year, but about 
averasi^e for this pest throughout the State. 
Mississi-oru, Ivl, L, Grimes (October p6): He-oorted on October I 9 that 
abemt U a.cres of pine ;timber near Union, Nev^top Cov^nty, had been 
severely d'un.aged by beetles, end the s'oecimens received proved to 
be D, terebr.'- ns Oliv, , Ip 5 c;^llipTa-nh\is Gepm. , and Platypus 
fla.vicornis F. 
Oregon and T/ashington, P. P, Keen (October): In eastern Oregon and 
Wa.shington 'oreliminary data received from surveys of the western 
nine beetle ,(P. brevicoinis Lee. ) situation in these localities 
indicate a marked general increase in losses of ponderosa 'oine 
C'-used by this insects On many sairole Plots this .increase for 
1532 runs from 100 to 200 percent of the 1937 lotss, "'hich is 
■nart icularl./' su.r-orising in vie'.-? of a general improvement in 
moisture conditions and tree vitality, 'The beetle is evidently 
responding to cyclic f.'",ctors which are not related to host con- 
ditions, 
California, J. P. Miller (October IS): : A noticeable increase in the 
activity of the westarn oine beetle wa.s .obser-~^d in the southern 
Sierra region late ,in the sumr-.ier of 1933. The tWo ^receding 
se.asons hove been marked by an endemic condition of the infestation, 
with low timber losses. As yet tiie. recent increase is of mildly 
.gggressive hnar.r.cter arid it is too early to assume th-'t it is the 
forerinnsr of an epidemic outorfok, 
DEODTH 7JS2VIL ( Pissodes netnorensi s; Germ. •• 
Maryland. S, il, 0017 ;- (September 28): P-eported from Dickerson, Mont- 
gomer;/ County,, on. mugho pine, 
SAOliIES ( Neodinrion -spp, ) 
Indiana, J, J. Davis (October 3)? An unprecedented outbreak of pine 
sawflies, \vhich are defoli.ating or partially defoliating pine 
trees in Toractically all sections of the State, In some cases 
indi vidi.i.?! trees v/ere defoliated, while in ethers entire groves 
were a.ttaXked, Adults not yet re?,red but larvae identified by 
P, A, Cushman as Abbott’s pine sa-pfly (N, pinetum Mort,), 
