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POE^iST AUD SHADID-TEEE INSECTS 
PEEIOEICAL CICi'VDA ( Ma^icicacla soptondecin L, ) 
New York, N, Y, State Coll, A,'^r, Nov/s Letter (Jvuie 9): This insect has 
"been ohserved f^enorvallj’ throUf^hout the Eod Kook, Hock City, and 
Tivoli areas in Lutchoss Coiuity, and its noise \iras heard as far south 
as Manchostor Lridi;^e, just east of Poughkeepsie, on Juno 3* 
CAlTKEENOPJyiS ( Gc one t r i dan ) 
Vernont. K, L, 2jT_iioy (June 23): Groups of elns conpletely defolia,tcd hy 
the spring cankerv/orn ( Paloanrita, vorna.ta Pock) in Shelburne, Shittenden 
County, and Porrishurg, Addison County, Pupae found in soil on Juno 6, 
when a few lai-van were still feeding, 
Nest Virginia. P, N, Cp^ig (June IS): Outbreak of spring cankervrorn, which 
ha,s occurred in the vicinity of Nhoeling for the last severaA yems, 
v;an not nearly so intense this spring. Greatest damgo wa.s nn the edge 
of the hcanily infested ancas of last s^car and in an area 25 niles to 
the south, Lanvac were ua-turc on Juno 10, In IS^O lanyao X'^ere still 
feeding on June 20, wherean on Juno 9, 1939» they ha.d aAroady dis- 
appeaned. 
North Dakota, J, A, Munro (Juno 23 )• Trees bakly defoliated by canker- 
worns aAong the Sheyonno Eiver near Pargo and at various points along 
the Red River, on the oantorn border of tho State. Spring cankor- 
worr.is prtodoninatc, 
Nebranloa, H, D, Ta.tc (Ju].io 20): Spring cankorworm noticed in Redvrillow, 
Pumas, and Phelps Counties on Ma.y 22, Damage to elns and hackberry 
vcr;r severe. Reported on Chinese elns in Custer County on May 26, 
Severe infestation noted on boncldor, villov;, wild plur.!, wild rose, 
eln, chokocherry, and vdld. gooseberry in Dav/cs and Sioux Counties 
on Juno 5* 
Kansan, H, D, Hungorford (June 12): Tho fall cankerv/orn ( Alsophila pone- 
tar i a- Harr,) was very destructive in the woodlands of Douglan County, 
POPuEST TENT CATERPILLi'Al ( Halacosona disstria Hbn.) 
Maine, P, H, Lathrop (June 13)^ ^oneraAly abundant in May throughout nost 
of the southwestern pa.rt of MaAne, Reported as nuncrous in Kennebec, 
Knox, and Lincoln Counties, and a. few in sevoraA localities in Nanhing- 
ton County, Danagc .generally' light to nodorako, 
Vornont and Massa.chusctts, J, V. Scha^ffner, Jr, (Juno IS): Outbreak, v/hich 
has persisted for the la,st 5 on 6 yeans in najiy localities throughout 
tho southern haAf of Vernont and the v/cstorn part of Massachusetts, 
has subsided, v/ith the exception of the vicinity of Richmond and Nest 
Stockbridgeo in the oxtreno western pant of Derkshire County, Mass, 
On June IS in these tv;o tovms hundreds of acres of woodlands v/ere 
