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aro getting more credit for the damage than they deserve. People 
find their trees dying and upon elimination find a few of those 
scales, ard give them all of the tlaiua for the condition of 
their tree So 
PIgg 
IITTRODUCED PUS Sa\7?LY ( Diurien simile Eartig) 
Kew York E„ P. Pelt (July 2k): The European pine sawfly was reported from 
Seneca Parle, Rochester, "by R. E. Horsey, though causing no 
serious injury, There was a "bad infestation last September in 
Highland Park, Rochester. 
VJHIT2UFJHE V.3EVIL (Pissodes strooi Peck): 
New York 3„ P. Pelt (July 2k) i The white-pine weevil has "been increasing 
in numbers in the large. pine planting around Tomhannock "Reservoir, 
City of Troy, and this season has killed 75 to 90 per cent of the 
leading shoots in restricted areas. The damage has been so 
marked that thebcity has l6 men cutting out and "burning the 
affected shoots* 
COLASPIS SP. 
Mississippi E, W. Earned (Jtily 3): I lave received specimens of these 
beetles that we think belong to the genus Colaspis from several 
correspondents, On June 2k Troy Thompson, Wave-land, wrote as 
follows j "Under separate cover I am mailing a pine tree. The 
dying condition you will notice in the terminal straw is typical 
of hundreds of thousands of trees in Hancock County. I have 
mad© a rough survey of the territory covered and find it general 
over the western half of Hancock County* Yesterday I observed 
light infestations as high as Picayune. The territory from 
Waveland west on the Pearlington road to within a mile or so 
of Pearlington is the worst hit of any I have observed so far. 
However, coming back across the north end of the county I find 
heavy damage also, so I take it that it is general throughout 
this stretch. I am confidant that fully 75 P Q r cent of the 
young trees in this section are dying, and believe that by fall- 
none will be left. So far the damage is mostly in young trees, 
but I find that in lots of places even the largest timber is 
beginning to turn red from the top down. So far I find very 
little damage along the Pearl River. u 
Troy Thompson (Jtily 9) ' There is a chrysomelid beetle that is 
playing havoc with the foliage of the young pine trees in 
Hancock County and the part of Pearl River County that I have 
seen. There are acres and acres of these young pines that look 
like they are dead. On close examination I find that the beetles 
works on the needles near the shuck that joins it to the branch 
