APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
South. Carolina. C. 3P. Rainwater (April 26): Root aphids are not 
so numerous on cotton as they were at this tine last year. 
Plorida. C. S. Rude (April 26): Observed on cotton in one field in 
Marion County during the week ended April 26, hut the predators 
seemed to he holding then in check. 
■ MEALY.BUG-S ( Pseudococcus spp.) 
South Carolina. C. P. Rainwater (April 26): More numerous on cotton, 
soybeans, and several wild host plants than lias been noted heretofore. 
P 0 R E S T AND SHADE-TREE 'I..N S'E. C T~S . 
CANKERWORM S (Geometridae) 
Connecticut. P. Wallace (April 23): Plights of male spring cankerworm 
( Paleacrita vernat a Peck 0 ) and fall cankerworm ( Alsophila pometaria 
Harr.) less abundant than _ usual early in April. Egg clusters 
scarce on elm at New Haven, Cheshire, Hamden, and North Sranford. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April): Egg masses of 
the fall cankerworm are numerous on apple on Long Island and in 
many neglected blocks in Niagara Comity. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (April 23): A few newly hatched larvae of fall 
and spring cankerv/orms were observed on expanding elm leaves along 
a stream at Columbus on April 20 and 22. Not abundant as yet. 
Illinois. W. P. Plint (April 22): Cankerworm eggs began hatching 
approximately April l4, and have been hatching in large numbers up 
to April 21. 
Minnesota. T. L. Aamodt (April 16): Adult spring cankerworm. males 
abundant in Red River Yalley, in the western part of the State. 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (April): Light infestation of cankerworns in Louisa, 
Henry, Jefferson, and Davis Counties, all in the southeastern sec- 
tion of the State. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (April 23): A few moths still observed on April 21, 
No evidence of young larvae. 
Oklahoma. C. P. Stiles (April 23) : The spring cankerworm reported as 
defoliating orchard and other trees throughout the central portion 
of the State, being especially numerous in Love, Jefferson, 
Oklahoma, and Seminole Counties. 
P. A. Penton (April 25): Spring cankerworm reported as 
defoliating many fruit and shade trees .in Okemah, in the central part 
of the State. 
