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SADDLED PROMINENT 
Various reports received indicate that the larvae of this species were 
locally abundant i n the White Mountain area of New Hampshire, the counties of 
Windham and Rutland, Vt., and the Catskill Mountain area in New York. A stand 
of maple and beech covering an area of between 1 and 2 square miles on Herrick 
Mountain in Rutland County, Vt., was heavily defoliated in July 1940. (R. C. 
Brown, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
BEECH SCALE 
An examination made in September 1940 of permanent sample plots located 
in eastern and central Maine revealed a slight decrease in intensity of infesta- 
tion. However, reports from north-central Maine indicate very heavy infestation 
of the scale and infection with Nectria , a fungus which follows- the 'scale. No 
appreciable increase in ..severity was observed in the infestation at Bartlett, 
N. H., in the White Mountain region. This insect is now generally distributed 
throughout Westchester County, N. Y., and has been found west of the Hudson 
River. (R. C. Brown, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
GYPSY MOTH 
The hatch of gypsy noth egg clusters in 19^-0 was somewhat varied, especiall 
in Vermont, re.nging from 51 to 82 percent, with an average of 69 percent; in 
Massachusetts the average hatch was 90 percent; in Connecticut, 96 percent. 
Winter-killing of egg clusters was light. Hatching was late, but late spring 
mortality was pronounced. In Maine there was a slight increase in defoliation 
in 194o, over that recorded in 1939* In New Hampshire there was an increase 
of 16,000 acres, located around Concord and north to Lake Winnopesaukee . In 
Vermont there was a considerable decrease, all gradations of defoliation being 
less than in 1939. In Massachusetts there was about a 10-percent decrease in 
total defoliation from that recorded in 1939. In Barnstable, Hampshire, Frank- 
lin, and Hampden Counties there was a large decrease in the number of acres 
showing defoliation. In Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden Counties no 100-per- 
cent defoliation was recorded. In Norfolk and Worcester Counties there was a 
slight decrease, and in Bristol, Middlesex, and Plymouth Counties a considerable 
increase. A slight . increase was recorded in Dukes and Essex Counties, end no 
defoliation reported from Berkshire, Nantucket, and Suffolk Counties, In Rhode 
Is lend there was a decrease of over 90 percent in total defoliation from that 
recorded in 1939. In Connecticut no noticeable defoliation was recorded in 
1940. (A. F. Burgess, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
Parasetigena silvestris R. D. is a valuable larval parasite of the -gypsy 
moth in Central Europe, commonly destroying. 35 percent of this insect when it 
occurs under epidemic conditions. This parasite was, over a period of years, 
imported and liberated in 22 towns in New .England. For. the first time, in the 
summer of 1940, it was recovered in several localities in Massachusetts in such 
encouraging numbers a,s to indicate that it ultimately should be an excellent 
addition to the sequence of gypsy moth parasites, nl ready established in this 
country. (R. C. Brown, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
