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A TUSSOCK MOTH ( Olene achat ina S. & A.) 
Connecticut. E. P..Eelt (September 23): Larvae were generally abundant on 
white, red, and black oaks at Stamford and Danbury, skeletonizing the 
underside of the leaves on the lower exposed branches, particularly 
along roadsides. This is the first year in a decade in which the larvae 
have attracted notice. 
A GALL INSECT ( Neuroterus saltatorlus Edwards) 
California. G. H. Kaloostian (August 23): Specimens of galls on the leaves 
of valley oak were brought in from Earlier, Fresno County. Galls 
collected by the thousands and could be heard at night. Dissection re- 
vealed immature and mature larvae and a pupa. 
GOLDEN OAK SCALE ( Asterolecanium variolosum Hat z . ) 
Massachusetts. E. P. Felt (September 23): Sufficiently abundant to rather 
seriously injure English oaks at Weston, Middlesex County. 
TWO-LINED CHESTNUT BORER ( Agrilus bilineatus Web . ) 
Delaware. S. P. Felt (September 23): Was reported as somewhat injurious on 
large oaks near Wilmington. 
PINE 
EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionia buo liana Schiff.) 
Connecticut. E. P. Felt (September 23): Present in moderate numbers on 
Austrian pine at Greenwich. 
NANTUCKET PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionia frustrana Comst.) 
Delaware. E. F. Felt (September 23): Found in somewhat injurious numbers 
on pine near Wilmington. 
Tennessee. G, M. Bentley (September 26): Found doing damage to evergreens 
at Columbia, Maury County. (Det. by C. Heinrich.) 
A SAWFLY ( Diprion frutetorum F.) 
New Jersey. C. W. Collins (September 20): On July 11, I 93 S, C. L. Gris- 
wold made a collection of sawfly cocoons from litter under red pine at 
Lamington, Somerset County . Miss G. A. Sandhouse determined the adult 
as B. frutetorum and remarked that this was the first identification of 
this European species from the United States, although two specimens in 
the National Museum collection apparently belong to the same species. 
One specimen is from .Ithaca, N. Y., and the'other from Rye, N. Y. D. 
frutetorum was found infesting Scotch pine near Niagara Falls , Ontario, 
in 193^ > a ^d in the autumn of 1937 its known distribution in the 
Niagara. Peninsula extended from Niagara Falls, Ontario, to Fort Erie, 
Ontario . 
