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A PIKE SakV/PLY ( iToodiprion sortlfor G-eoff,) 
New Jersey. C. L, Griswold (June 6): Cosoryations indicate a further poprulatior 
increase in this State. General hatching occurred on May lO in Morris 
County, and larvae vrero in last feeding instars on June 6. Considerahlc 
conplotc needle defoliation, instances of. partial end conplete severing of 
1940 pine laterals and leaders, and gouging in the "bark itself were observ- 
ed, 
WHITE-PINE !i/!El!iVIL (Pissodes strobi Peck) 
Nev/ England. ,S,: p, Polt (June 25) • Locally injurious to various pines in 
southern New England, , 
Michigan, H, Eutson (June 22): Reported fron Beulah and Shelby on May 24, 
A WEEVIL ( Hy lob ins radio is Buch.) 
Massachusetts, J.. V, Schaffnor, Jr. (May)i Infestation in a plantation of 
Corsican and Scotch pine at Weston still locr.sists. Many adult-s hibernated 
benca.th loose br.rk and in the duff .at base of trees, and nany larvae, fron 
one-half to nearly full grown, ih their galleries in the bark and canbiun 
of the host trees, '■ 
A SCiiHABAEID ( Anouala oblivia Horn) - • « ■ • 
Vir,^nia, L, .A . Hetrick :(Junc 19): •Needing on the basad portions of -tender 
new-grovrth needles of’ Pinus t aoda , Bce'tlos seen to bo generally present 
in tidewater Virginia, Needing of adults causes the needles to bend over 
and die, (Let. by E, A, Chapin,) 
AN APHID ( Pineus pinifoliao Pitch) 
General, J. V, Schaffner, Jr, (June 24): Attracting considerable . attention in 
natural stands of .sod spruce ' throu^out tHo southern Adirondacks in New 
York, and in p<arts of Nov; Har.ipshiro, "^ernont, and Massachusetts, Reported 
as abundant in nany localities, 
■ PJ^ SPITTLE BUG ( Aphrophora parallela Say) 
Massachusetts, J, V, Schaffnor, Jr, (Juno 24); Voiy corinon throughout nany 
plnntrdions : of Scotch pine in eastern pe,rt of the State, Very heavy in- 
festation observed in a plantation of Scotch pine in Ashby, 
A SCALE ( Matsucoccus ' gallicolus Morrison) 
Pennsylvania., T,' .J, Parr (Juno 24); -Egg nasses hatched at the usual ..tine and 
young nyrrohs had settled on the new growth -of .attacked pitch pino^.by 'the 
last .w&.ek in May a,f' Mont ’Alto ajnd Mount Union, 
