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sheds, and on private property wre sprayed to prevent serious defoliation. 
Heavy infestations where serious defoliation occurred were observed in Essex, 
Middlesex, and Worcester Counties, Mass., and at Pittsford, in Rutland County, 
Vt.; also a medium infestation at Keene, in Cheshire County, N. H. (J. V. 
Schaffner, Jr., Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U, S. D. A.) 
BOXELDER LEA? ROLLER 
A severe epidemic of what apparently is the hoxelder loaf roller 
( Gracilaria sp«, probably G. negundella Chamb. — — based on larval determinations) 
occurred throughout the southern portion of Idaho, whore practically every ouu 
elder was severely infested* Associated with this insect in many instances was 
a large noctuid that has been determined as Acronicta anerienna Harr. (J. C. 
Evenden, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
A NEff PINE NEEDLE MINER 
A new needle miner, Recurvaria sp. , was found attacking pinon pine east 
of Mono Lake, Calif. An .area of ^b out 10,000 acres was suffering from an 
epidemic infestation that had already caused death of the stand over about 3»000 
acres. This infestation has attacked a pinon forest which for many years has been 
used by the Mono Indians for gathering pine nuts. (J. M. Miller, Bureau of Ento- 
mology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH 
The infestations of the European pine shoot moth continue heavy in West- 
chester County and on Long Island, N. Y. , and in the southwestern part of 
Connecticut, particularly on red and Scotch pine. Many red pine trees in planta- 
tions and in small ornamental groupings are in a very poor condition. (J. Y. 
Schaffner, Jr., Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
NANTUCKET PINE SHOOT MOTH 
The Nantucket pine tip moth was reported killing many of the new growth 
shoots on pine in plantations in parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. 
It was also reported infesting pine adjacent to the Forest Service nursery near 
Licking, Mo. (L. G. Baumhofer , Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
U. S. D. A.) 
WHITE GRUBS, 
White grubs ( Phyllophaga epp. ) caused heavy losses of seedlings in. several 
forest nurseries in 193S* The Forest Service nurseries on the Nicolet National 
Forest, Wig., and Chippewa National Forest, Minn. , had serious grub problems. 
Also on the Chippewa Forest one pine plantation of about 60 acres, established 
in 1937, suffered a mortality of about 80 percent, owing to grubs. The State 
nurseries in South Carolina had about two- thirds of the seedlings destroyed in 
some sections, and greater grub damage was prevented by chemical control measure. 
An outbreak of white grubs in the State nursery at Albany, Ga. , was controlled by 
the use of carbon disulphide. (Division of Forest Insect Investigations, Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
