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something else. Any way they are light green and dark "brown 
striped §eoir.etrid caterpillars working in woodlots and parks here 
and there all over. 
OYSTER SHELL SCALE (Lryp idosa-phes ulmi L. ) 
Illinois W. P. Flint (J-^ne 18): There is more indication of parasitism 
of this scale than at any time during the last several years. 
A lighter hatch occurrred on all trees in the vicinity of Urbana. 
EEL SPIDER ( Tetranychus telarins L.) 
Indiana H* F. Dietz (June 12): The red spider has done and is doing 
serious damage to all kinds of ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, 
such as evergreens (all kinds), bush honeysuckle, Buddleia, 
phlox, delphiniums* columbine, sweet peas, asters, beans, beets, 
gladioli, dahlias, etc 
PERIODICAL CICADA (Tibicina SBotendecim L. ) 
Mississippi E» W. Earned (June 11 ): I sent out a newspaper article to all 
the papers in the State and the papers that circulate in this 
State, and in response to that, I have received a dozen or more 
packages of cicadas but there are no specimens of the periodical 
cicada. Most of the cicadas that I have received are T ibice n 
auletes G-erm D T> yitripennis Say and a few specimens of T. 
sayiS&3- and T. pr uir. osa Say. I do ncfct belisve that we wi 11 be 
able to get any records on Brood XXIV in this State this year. 
Unless some specimens are actually obtained of this brood or 
unless specimens were actually seen by an entomologist in 1899 
and 1875, I am inclined to believe that the correspondents mistook 
other cicadas for the periodical cicada. I find that most people 
who send in cicadas think they are sending the periodical cicada. 
They do not realize that we have in this State about 20 other 
species* 
Louisiana W. E, Kinds (June 15): Occurrence of the periodical cicada 
around Irodnax, Morehouce Parish, La„, was reported at this 
time in large numbers and doing serious injury to the stands of 
cotton in some fields, 
Missouri E. Baseman (May 28): In my earlier bulletin on the periodical 
cicada, I reported that appeared to be a number of authentic 
records in Missouri on the appearance of the 17- year broods 
which appeared In 1919. These cane from an earlier survey by 
Prof. Steadman in the summer of 1902. I rechecked on all of the 
localities from which the earlier records came during the last 
visitation of this brood during 1919 and I failed to get a 
single authentic record of the ocurrence of this brood west of 
the Mississippi River. This of course, agrees with Marlatt's 
earlier report though the original Steadman records appeared to 
be. authentic. I had the original letters from each individual 
reporting the appearance of the cicada in 1902, but evidently 
in each case they must have referred to the common 2-year cicada 
