- 564 . 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (August 31 ) : Reported on pine at Tarrant, Jefferson 
County, on August 27. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (August 29 ) • Round on spruce trees at Elizabethon, 
Carter County. (Det. by H. Morrison.) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September 20): Black Hills spruce infested in 
Buffalo County on September 12. 
Utah. G. R. Kn owl ton (September l4) : Austrian pine foliage damaged this 
season on the canpus at Logan. 
SCOTCH PINE LECANIUM ( Tourney el la numismaticum P. & McD.) 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (September 9) • Quite abundant and doing some damage 
to Chinese pine trees in a nursery. 
POPLAR 
A LEAR BEETLE ( Chrysomela tremulae R.) 
Minnesota. H. J. McAloney (September l4) : Complete defoliation of young 
aspen trees in small groups on the Kawishiwi Ranger District, Superior 
National Rorest. Larvae were full grown on August 17 . 
AN APHID ( Periphyllus populicola Thos.) 
Utah. G. R. ICnowlton (September l4) : Poplar twigs frequently heavily in- 
fested by this aphid. 
SPRUCE 
SPRUCE BUDWORM ( Cacoecia fumif erana Clem.) 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles and C. E. Mickel (September 13 ) • Reported as very 
abundan t . 
SPRUCE NEEDLE MINER ( Recurvaria piceaella Kearf.) 
Wisconsin. H. J. MacAloney (September l4) : Somewhat common on black spruce 
on the Chequamegon National Rorest, Mineral Lake Ranger District, but 
the attack is usually light and little damage is evident. Larvae found 
on August 23 . 
EASTERN SPRUCE BEETLE ( Dendroctonus piceaperda Hopk. ) 
New Hampshire and Vex-mont. T. J. Parr (September 23): Infestations in the 
northern division of the Green Mountain National Rorest, Vt., are 
decreasing. The number of infested trees on survey strips was consid- 
erably less than in 1936 or 1937* Very light infestations in the mature 
spruce stands in the Waterville Valley section of the White Mountain 
National Rorest, N. H. 
