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CATALPA 
SC^JPJY SCAL"^. ( Chionas'pis f-.irfurr. Pitch) 
iiorth C!:^rolira. 33. L, Wray (October 15)i Severe damai^e to Catalpa 
trees at Charlotte, Iviecklenburg Co^inty* this year. 
CYPHSSS 
A SCALE ( Ehrhornle. caoro as i Ehrh, ) 
California.. Kern County Monthly Pews Letter (Se-otember 6): TVie cottony 
cyoress scale is on* the increase' on Monterey cyoress trees and 
h€d:--;;es g.no in soiiie instances the trees are so severely injured 
that it is ?-rlvis.able to destray.ithem. 
ELM 
ELM LPAP BEETLE ( &aleri:.cella ;can t ho me 1 ae n a Schr. ) 
Alo^bama'. J. M, Robinson 'XO.ctober 2'S'):- Cornplaints recei-vedp- froin Birni- 
inajh.ara about beetles feediiit^ on' the ICcaves of elm. Believed to 
be the- elm leaf beetle, ' ■ . 
FIR 
!)• UGLAis FIR TUSSOCK MOTH ( Hemerocarnra ' psieudot STipp.ta McD, ) 
Oreijon. F. P. Keen (October); This insect is scattered far and \7ide 
over the Blue Mountains of northea.stern Ore^'jon, Dougla.s firs and 
white firs beir.^2’ defoliated but, a.s yet, with little loss of 
timber. The 1-ast 'orevious •outbreak started 10 years ago and the 
species siraultnneou-sly made its a.'puea.rancs in British Columbia, 
I'ortheastern Washington, .oastern Oregon, and Idaho, 
U, L, Bucldiorn (August 3l)j A moderate defoliation of 
Pseuc oteu a douylasi ajid Abies concolor ivas noted over an a,rea 
of 92,000 acres in the Hrdheur National Forest, southeastern 
Oregon, Centers of greatest intensity, where tue foliage was 
corr/pletely stripped from the hosts, were found in many of the 
small c-'nyons< 
A TUSSOCK MOTH ( Hemerocamua os lari Barnes) ' 
California. J. M, Miller (October lU): Serious outbreaks, which 
iiave been running during 1935 * 193 -^» nnd 1937. have resulted in 
the death of a bi.gtV percentage of ’.7hite fir stands east 6f the 
Sierra Hevada i'-.u-nt- Ins in Mono and Inyo Counties, On a survey 
of these ai'eu.G in Se-oteraber 193^* nractically no evidence of 
fcediiig w.as found, Tiie outbreak has aPoar-'.ntly subsided from 
natviral cr-uses. 
