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A LOOPER ( Sllopia athasaris Walk. ) 
Connecticut* J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (February 24): Records indicate that moths 
will emerge at comparatively low temperatures. On October 22, 1940, a 
collection of 118 pupae gathered from the .duff beneath defoliated hemlock 
trees at Wood-bridge was stored in .some of the duff in cages in a cool 
basement room in the laboratory at l!ew Haven. During Januarv and up to 
date the temperature ranged from about 42° to. 55° Moths began emergin' 
the fourth week of December and have continued to date. Thus far 48 moths 
and 2 hymenopterous parasites have emerged. 
RUSTY TUSSOCK MOTH ( Uotolophus an tiqua L. ) 
Vermont. C. H. Blasberg (January 30) : Eggs received from Burlington. (Det. 
by C. Heinrich.) 
BAGWORM ( Thyr i dop t oryx ephemeraeformis Haw. ) 
Ohio. E, W, Mendenhall (February 2^): Quite numerous on elms, other deciduous 
trees, fruit trees, evergreens, and shrubbery, and seem to have' over- 
wintered in good condition. No doubt. some of the bags will be destroyed 
by parasites, but there will be enough left to increase the infestation, 
which at present covers the southern half of the State, 
Texas. R. K. Fletcher (January 24): Collected on Arizona cypress in Tarrant 
County on January 24. 
A BORER ( Xylotrechus qua dr imaculatus Enid,) 
New York. E. P. Pelt (Feb: ’uary 20 ): Four^opotted wood- runner work in birch 
received from Purchase early in November, A gallery had been run around 
a 2-f-inch stem and about |r inch below the surface, causing the breaking 
of the' stem at the point of injury. Causes, same type of damage to medium- 
sized beech limbs.- 
AMBROSIA BEETLES ( Platypus spy.) 
Mississippi. C, Lyle (February 21 ) t Specimens of P. compo situs Say were take) 
on oak in Jackson County and of P. flavicornis P. from pine in Oktibbeha 
County in October,- 
ASH . . 
CARPENTER WORM ( Prionoxystus robiniae Pock) 
Nebraska. H, D, Tate (February 24): Specimen of insect larva found boring 
in an ash tree received from Holt County on February 5« 
3EECE BLIGHT APHID ( Prociphilus imbrico.tor Pitch) 
C. Lyle (February 2l): Adults and young that probably belong to this species 
we re taken from a beech tree in Carroll County in November. 
