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KSiB~i&to MS.-.SAWPLY V ( Ueodipyjon • lecontei Pitch) 
J. N. Knull (August) J : Leconte's sawfly was 1 present at the 
following places: Pitch pine, Weston, Bradford County; one 
pitch pine, larvae, July 31.. Pitch pine, Delmas Toop, Tioga 
County; many tree's, la'rvae, • July 29. Pitch pine, red pine, 
Scotch pine, Ansonia, Tioga County, July 27. Doing considerable 
damage in plantation at Ansonia. (August 6'): A heavy infestation 
of Leconte's sawfly on pitch pines in a plantation at Praity 
Lich, Potter County. (Information received "by Prof. Perry) 
A SAWPLY ( Febdiprion excitans - Roliw,-) • 
C. Lyle (August 25): Specimens of ffieodiprion excitans were 
received from Aberdeen, Miss., on August 8, with the report 
that these insects were stripping the leaves from pine trees. 
PIHE.BARK APHID (Chermes -pinicorticis Pitch) 
E. W„ Mendenhall (August 6): I find quite a severe outbreak 
of the pine bark aphid on a planting of pine trees on a private 
property on the north side of llewark, Licking County. 
A. G-. Ruggles and assistants (August): Pine- bark aphids are 
moderately abundant in Itasca Park, Slight damage on white 
pine, 
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PINS HEEDLE APHID ( Chermes ipinifoliae Pitch) 
E. P. Pelt^ (August 21): The pine needle aphid has been very 
abundant at Portland, the dead ajjhids occurring in numbers upon 
the needles, 
PIl'JE LEAP SCALE ( Chionaspis pinifoliae Pitch) 
H. B. Peirson (August 24): The pine leaf scale is locally 
abundant in Sidney. 
Massachusetts 
POPLAR 
. POPLAR SAFPLY ( Trichiocanrpus vimlnalis Pall.) 
J. V.. Schaffner, Jr. (August 10); Mr. H. E. Woods, Local 
Superintendent of Moth Work, sent in this ,specios and reported 
that it had stripped some large Carolina poplar shade trees in 
Chester. 
