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A GALL MIDGE ( Cecidonyia balsamicola Lint.) 
North Carolina. B. H. Wilford (September 25): Considerable defoliation by the 
balsam gall midge reported on several areas of Abies fraseri on Spruce 
Mountain, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, western North Carolina, 
Larvae- infer ted foliage, collected on September 19, brought in for examina- 
tion. 
HICKORY 
HICKORY PHYLLOXERA ( Phylloxe ra caryaecaulis Fitch) 
New York. E. P. Felt (September 26): Hickory leaf stem galls found somewhat 
abundantly on hickories at Monroe, This species is common and occasionally 
very injurious to individual trees, 
LOCUST 
LOCUST LEAF MINER ( Chalopus dorsalis Thunb,) 
Rhode Island, A. E, Stene (September 20) ; Again quite abundant. 
Connecticut. P. Wallace (September 20) ; : Abundant throughout Middlesex and New 
London Counties, causing considerable damage to black locust. Larvae pres- 
ent and active, 
Tennessee. G, M. Bentle^ (September 15): Many of the black locust trees in the 
middle and western comities have been highly infested.- Injury very notice- 
able, 
LOCUST BORER ( Cyllene robiniae Forst.) 
Tennessee. G. M, Bentley (September 15): General infestation on locust trees of 
various sizes, especially those growing in sunny places. Infestation hard- 
ly noticeable in dense, shaded areas, such as woodlands-. 
Nebraska, M. H. Swenk (September 1^) j Found to be attacking black locust trees 
in Jefferson County on August 28, 
MAPLE 
GREEN-STRIPED MAPLE WORM ( An is ota rubicunda F.) 
Massachusetts. A, F. Burgess (August): Quite abundant throughout Berkshire 
County, 
Michigan, E. I. McDaniel (September 23) S Unusually abundant- in northeastern 
Michigan and in the Upper Peninsula, where it defoliated many maple trees. 
