3R0 WIT-TAIL MOTH ( Nygmia phaeorrhoea Don. ) 
Maine. H. 3. Peirson (June 10): A local infestation was found at South Harps well 
June 10 in spite of the severe winter. 
GIPSY MOTH ( Stilpnotia salicis L. ) 
Hew England. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (June 20): All reports indicate that infesta- 
tions are generally light all through the infested area. In several places 
very few larvo,e could "be found where rather severe infestations existed a year 
ago. 
LFOJCE'S SPANWCEM ( Rachel a bruceata Hulst. ) 
Vermont. II. L. Eailey (June 2o): Larvae were again abundant in certoun northern 
areas of Vermont on sugar maple and "beech. The infestation was less heavy 
than that of last year, when many maple sugar orchards in Franklin, Lamoille, 
Orleans, and Caledonia Counties were nearly defoliated. In some cases the 
under growth of young maples has apparently "been killed "by repeated attacks 
of these inch-worms. Feeding was completed about the first week in June and 
larvae went into the leaf mold and spun cocoons similar to those of Alsophila 
pome t aria . (Det. by V. T. Forbes). Many adults we rv appearing November 1, 
1933. 
A LEAF MIKES ( Prionomerus calceatus Say) 
1" w York. E. P. Felt (June 22): The sassafras and tulip leaf miner (P. calceat us) 
is infesting sassafras- at Westbury, L. I., and is also somewhat injurious to 
tulip. 
BLACK VINE HSEVIL ( Srachyrhinus sulcatus Fab.) 
Massachusetts. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (June 20): A nurseryman from Lynnfield 
brought in specimens on June 20 and reported injury to Japanese yew. 
A SATCFLY ( Profenusa c pilaris MacG. ) 
Massachusetts. E. P. Felt (June 22): The cherry and hawthorn sawfly leaf- miner 
(?. collaris ) was reported as abundant on hawthorn foliage at North Andover. 
OYSTER-SHELL SCALE ( Lepidosaphes ulmi L . ) 
New York. R, E. Horsey (June 25): New scale was past moving and set on June 9 
at Rochester. 
I iana, J. J. Davis (June 22): Oyster-shell scale was very abundant and de- 
structive to ash at North Manchester on June 18. 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (June lk) : Infested lilac is common throughout f he State 
ASH ' 
SAtTFLIES ( Tonostethus spp.) 
Maine. II, 3. Peirson (June lk): The ash sawfly (T. bardus Say) was defoliating 
brown ash at Augusta on June lk. 
