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PIKE NEEDLE SCALE ( Chionaspis -pinlfoliae Fitch) 
Hew York. R. E. Horsey (June 25): The pine needle cede was reported moving durin. 
the first week in month at Rochester. 
Nebraska. M. II. Swenk (June 20): A sprucetree was reported to "be infested with 
pine leaf scale on May 2b by a Dundy County correspondent. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (May 2U): Pine leaf scales are damaging ornamental spruce 
trees at Fairview. 
SCOTCH PINE LECANIUM ( Toumeyella nunismaticun P. and QcD. ) 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (June lH) : Specimens of the Scotch pine lecanium have 
been received from Rose City, where it is reported as infesting pines in suffi- 
cient numbers to be a decided detriment to the trees. 
POPLAR 
TULIP TREE SCALE ( Toumeyella liriodendri Gmel.) 
Mississippi. J. M. Langs ton (June 22): A heavy infestation found on tulip poplar 
twigs was receive:! from a correspondent at McComb, Pike County, on May 26. 
SPRUCE 
SPRUCE GALL APHID (C herries ahietis L . ) 
Maine. H. 3. Peirson (June 2): The spruce gall aphid ( Adelges abietis ) was observ. 
ed at Monson on June 2. It was very severe in this area on ornamental spruces . 
SPRUCE 3UD SCALE ( Physokermes piceae Schr.) 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (June lk) : The presence of spruce bud scale on Norway 
spruce on the campus of Michigan State College was first evident on May 28 and 
by June 2 the trees were coated with honeydew and were fairly alive 7/ith bees 
swarming over them feeding on the honeydew. 
SPRUCE MITE ( paratetranychus uninguis Jac.) 
Connecticut. E. P. Felt (June 22): The spruce mite is locally very abundant on 
spruce, badly infested twigs with numerous young having been received from 
D anbury. 
WILLOW 
A CERCOPID ( Aphrophora salicis DeG.) 
Massachusetts. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (June 20): This spittle insect was noted in 
abundance on willow trees in Boston, They were very abundant on willow in the 
Arnold Arboretum on June 17. 
WILLOW LEAF 3EETLE ( Plagiodera versicolora Laich. ) 
New York and New England. E. P. Felt (June 22): The imported willow leaf beetle 
is becoming generally abundant on willows in southeastern New York and south- 
western New England, with indications that there will be considerable injury 
