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and south through Merrimac and Rockingham Counties, N. H. , Essex, Middlesex, and 
Norfolk Counties, Mass., New Haven County, ' Conn. , Rutland County, Vt., and some 
localities in Columbia, Monroe, and Sullivan Counties, N. Y. (J. V. Schaffner, 
Jr., Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U, S. D. A.) 
A LEAF BEETLE 
A leaf beetle, Chrysomela tremulae E., "'as reported to be causing heavy 
defoliation of aspen over extensive progs in the Allegheny National Forest, in 
northwestern Pennsylvania. In northern Minnesota, on parts, of tho Superior 
National Forest, small groups of aspen in one district were completely defoli-ted. 
(Division of Forest Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quar- 
antine, U, S. D. A. ) , . 
BAG?/ ORM ' 
Numerous inquiries during the summer of 193S indicated that the bngworm 
was more prevalent than usual on ornamental evergreens from New York City' to 
Ohio and western. Kentucky and south to. Georgia and South. Carolina. Several in- 
quiries also came from Texas. In the Caro linns and Tennessee heavy defoliation 
and some permanent injury to ornamentals was recorded. (Division of Forest Insect 
Investigations, Bureau of Entomology' and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
GYFSY MOTH 
The hatch of egg* clusters of the gypsy moth in the spring of 1935 was 
not as pronounced as in 1937. Egg clusters collected over a more or less ex- 
tended .area snowed some of the clusters as total nonhatch. The averave hatch, 
however, was about 63 percent. The spring mortality' of the young larvae was 
high in 1935. The defoliation during the summer of 1935 was much less extensive 
than was recorded for the same territory, in 1937 . being but slightly more than 
half of that recorded for the previous summer. 'In Maine, the total area of de- 
foliation was somewhat less than in 193 7 » although in three of the counties there 
was a substantial increase in the areas affected, over that recorded in 1937. In 
New Hampshire the areas of defoliation were much less extensive, the total 
acreage being about half of that recorded in 1937* In Massachusetts, as in New 
Hampshire, the total area of defoliation was only about 50 percent of that 
recorded for the year 1937* In Barnstable County, however, there was a consider- 
able^ increase, and a moderate increase in Essex County. In Franklin, Hampshire, 
•and Hampden Counties the total defoliation in the towns east of the Connecticut 
River was somewhat less than that recorded in 1937; however, in towns west of 
the river the area of defnliat ion 'increased considerably. In R^odo Island there 
was an increase in the area of defoliation over that recorded in 1937 , while in 
ormont and Connecticut the area of defoliation increased markedly over that 
recorded in 1937. (A. F. Burgess, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
u. S. D. A. ) * 
BRCWN-TAIL moth 
. 0 , t ?°. s ™ er 01 x 935 there were not many reports of defoliation by this 
- though in Maine there were a number of towns where a considerable de- 
foliation was noted, and in one town in. Camherlnnd County an .area of almost solid 
oak -growth was completely defoliated. In New Hampshire and Massachusetts very 
