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shado treed* Kansas City, defoliation of bo:;elder; Rossville, 
defoliation of boxelder; ^nd Corbin, injury to evergreens. 
PALL uSB'.TQRM ( TL vrhan t r j. a run c - \ Drury) 
Massachusetts A. 1^ 3curne (July 2k): 7?o noted the first beginning-of the 
webs of the fell wobwormen the 13th to the 20th at this month. 
Indiana 
New York 
H. ?♦ Dietz (July 23): Quite common in Itertin County in the 
vicinity of Burns City. 
ARBCRVIT.4S 
AEBORYITAE LEAP MINER (Argyreathia thuie lla Pack.) 
M, D. Leonard (June 26): Infested arborvitae twigs were received 
from Saratoga Springs. 
Wisconsin S. 3. Pracker (July 10): Slight damage to arborvitae at Milwaukee 
llorth 
Carolina 
P. Sherman (June 30): One complaint of " spider-mi tes !l from a 
nutsery. Complaint of this is unusual with us, 
BIROH 
BIRCH LEAF MINSK (Fenusa pamila Hug) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (July 2k)t Me have been noting the injury caused 
by the birch leaf miner to be very generally distributed through- 
out the length of the State. Even in the higher sections the 
injury is very noticeable, 
J, V. Schaffner,Jr. (July 25): A birch leaf miner (sawfly), 
probably Penu^a r/tmila Elug, is working on gray birch sprouts 
throughout eastern Massachusetts. We have reports as far north- 
west as Ipswich. 
Connecticut 3» E» Britton (July 2h) : Chiefly on 3.-; tula Tin-put i folia , but 
occasionally on European cut leaf and native paper birch. Two 
broods of larvae have already minod the leaves at Few Haven, 
Haraden, and Xallingford. 
Hew York. E. P. Felt (July 2k): The birch leaf minor is abundant on gray 
birch from C-luns Palls, south nearly to New York City, and west 
into the Cat skills, many of the trees at the present time with 
such a proportion of the leaves browned by the mining that they 
have a Tsrownieh cast when seen from a distance. The first 
generation completed its transformations the very last of June 
or early in July, sire 3 adults, eg^s , and young larvae were 
observed Jul.y 9. Breeding is known to occur until into early 
fall. 
