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fron which it was reported originally in 1S<?7» Craig also observed it in 
three adjoining counties— Mason, Putnam, and Lincoln. J. J. Davis reported that 
the insect was henfd at Orleans, Orange County, Ind. , on May 2b, 193S, This is 
a ne-r record for this hrood. P. Knight made a thorough search in Maryland in 
the two places whore the records were made in 1904, hut saw no signs of the in- 
sect. 
SMALLER EUROPEAN ELM BARK -BEETLE - 
Distribution records obtained in 1933 have somewhat enlarged the known 
range of Scolvtus multistriatus Marsh. These additional records show the species 
to be well distributed on both sides of the Ohio River wn're this river forms 
the boundary between northern Kentucky and the adjoining portions of Indiana .and 
Ohio. Other findings for the first time disclosed the presence of the beetle in 
the Brunswick, Md. , and Cumberland, Md.— Wiley Ford, W, Va. , areas. These areas 
are considered as outlying areas of Dutch elm disease infection. The finding of 
this beetle at Hagerstown and' in other localities in Washington County, Md. , and 
at Scottdale, Westmoreland County, Pa., tends to connect areas previously known 
to be infested. (C. W. Collins, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
U. S. D. A.) 
EASTERN SPRUCE BEETLE 
The epidemic of the eastern spruce beetle in the Green Mountains of Vermont 
is subsiding. A survey late in the summer of 1933 showed that the number of in- 
fested spruce was considerably less than in 1936 and 1937* la the Waterville 
Valley section of the White Mountain National Forest, in New Hampshire, a very 
light endemic infestation ™as found in overmature spruce stands. (R. C. Brown, 
Rureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE 
The severe outbreak of the southern pixie beetle in loblolly pine in south- 
eastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina was found to have subsided in the 
fall of 193S, in all areas examined. Smaller outbreaks were recorded near 
Wilmington, N. C., and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tenn. , in 
pitch and shortleaf pine during the summer of 1933. (3, H. Wilford, Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
BLACK HILLS BEETLE 
In the central Rocky Mountain region Dendroc tonus ponderosae Hopk. has 
continued in epidemic form. In Colorado, in an area extending along the eastern 
range of the Rockies from the central to the northern part of the State, fall 
surveys indicated that 24,000 ponderesa pines were infested during the current 
flight of this beetle. This reduction of 20,000 trees from last year is due large- 
ly to control work. No radical changes have been noted in the Wyoming infestations 
(210,000 trees in 1937) in limber pine and lodgepole pine, except on the Medicine 
Bow National Forest where control work reduced the infestation from 12,000 trees 
last year to 1,200 this ye nr. In parts of southern Utah the infestation has main- 
tained epidemic proportions, notwithstanding control work. (J. A. Beal, Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
