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Maine 
OYSTER-SHELL SCALE ( Lepido'saphes ulmi L.) 
J. H. Knull (July 15): A 6-acre plantation of green ash is 
heavily infested .with the oyster-shell scale. Many trees have 
been killed. 
A CHRYSOMELID ( Oedionychis sexmaculata 111.) 
E. N» Cory and assistants (July 17): Quite numerous at 
College Park; 75 to 100 per cent of the ash leaves on many 
trees damaged. 
CARPENTER WORM ( Prionoxystus robiniae Peck) 
E. W. Mendenhall (July 13): One hundred and nineteen ash 
trees on the Ohio State Fair grounds are badly affected with 
the carpenter worm and I also find it in other sections of 
the city. 
M. H. Swenk (July l): In the central part of the State 
quite a bit of trouble with larvae of the carpenter moth 
boring in ash and poplar trees has been reported. 
BEECH 
A BEECH SKELETOHI ZER ( Psilocorsis faginella Chamb.) 
H. B..Peirson (July 22): The beech leaf skeletonizer was 
reported at Lucerne, July 3. Moths were flying. 
BIRCH 
BIRCH SKELETONIZER ( Bucculatrix canaden si sella Chamb.) 
H. B. Peirson (July 22): Moths of the birch leaf skeleton- 
izer were flying on July 3 at Jackman. 
BIRCH LEA? MINER ( Phyllotoma nemorata Fall.) 
Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, U.S.D.A. (June): 
A small colony of adults belonging to the genus Tranosema was 
put out at North Conway, 11,. H. , on June 16. This hymenopterous 
parasite of Phyllotoma nemorata Fall., a -leaf-mining sawfly on 
birch, was received from Austria during the past winter. 
A CASE BEARER ( Coleophora salmani Heinr.) 
A. E . Brower (July 10): Injury by. the recently described 
Colep-phora salmani Heinr. is very severe on- young birch and 
alder in places on Mt. Desert Island, especially along the 
eastt coast. . . • 
