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has "been much below normal in the southeastern sections of the 
United States, the deficiency in rainfall at some stations "being 
as much as 15 inches,, Should the present dry spell continue it 
is likely that unusually serious losses will develop this summer. 
It is therefore recommended that all timberlard owners keep a 
close watch on their pine lands Seminations should be made onee 
a month or oftener for clumps of dying trees, as indicated by 
fading or brown foliage, and reports sent immediately to Mr, R. A, 
St George, Bureau of Entomology Pield Station, P. 0. Box 1518, 
Asheville.N^ C» 
A CERYSOMEIID (Colaspis brunn ea var. ) 
Louisiana C. E. Smith (Jun9 24): Beetles doing severe injury at Covington 
to pine oy feeding on needles. Small seedlings being injured 
most severely^ Infestation extends from 1 mile west of Covington 
. to Robert about 15 miles* 
Mississippi B* W 3 Earned (June 25); Beetles were collected by our Inspector 
Mr. H„ Giadney, at Ocean Springs, on June 23,1925, from the 
property of Mr» T„ P., Harden, and sent in to this office with the 
following note: "These beetles have eaten the foliage on ten 
acres of young pines, The pines look as though they have been 
burned by fire„ My hat would not hold the beetles from three 
trees* The owner first noticed this infestation about one week 
ago," 
POPLAR 
COTTONWOOD APHID ( Chai touhorus bruneri Williams), 
Nebraska M, He S^enk (Tuna ?'5)r Jjrorn Holt County a report of injury to 
cottonwood trees by the aphid Chaitophorus bruneri was received 
early in June. 
A SHIELD BEARER ( Coptodisca sp. ) 
Hew Mexico Paul M« Gilmer (JuPS 22): We have received a report from Hudson 
with a statement that these insects were attacking "apple trees." 
J. A» Hyslop: The specimens received were Aspen so this is 
evidently a, typographical error. The cocoons were characteristic^ 
those of Co ptodi -....a but ssveral were fastened together fc a most 
unusual manner with silken threads several times the length of a 
cocoon. This was apparently not accidental as in every case these 
coccoons were in such chains. 
SPRUCE 
■A Eucosmicfc ( Argyroploce abietana Pern.) 
New York E. P. Pelt (June 25): Olethreutes abietana Pern. )was reared in 
large numbers from a specimen of Colorado blue spruce growing 
at Wilmington, Essex County. It has also been reported as working 
upon Picea asperata at Rochester. . This insect appears to have 
been unusually abundant. 
A EUCOSMID (Epinotia nanana Triet) 
New i rk E. P. Pelt (June 25): A small species, Spin et ia nanana (Ident.Busck), 
