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Massachusetts 
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state: : 
FOREST A I! L SHADE-TfiEE HI S E C T S 
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SIPSY L'CTH (PcrhMmtriP fljgpnr L. ) 
P. K. Lorry (April 23): Egg masses are quite sc-rce in the 
local ity of Durl . . 
A. I. Bourne (April 25): Ee orts fro..", the eastern and of the 
Stat a indicate that the gipsy iroth is ranch reduced in numbers. 
ERCT1T-TAIL MOTH (Eu::.r ~ctis chr~norrhoe a L. ) 
A. I. Bourne (April 25): i orts from the eastern end of t v e 
State indicate that the bromn-tail moth is much reduced in num- 
bers, although locally in certain sections it seems to be still 
abundant enough to threaten some injury if control measures are 
not put into practice. 
BAGTOBli ( Thvrido'otery x ephemera eformis Ham:. ) 
J. J. Davis (April 23): IJany reports have been received from 
the southern third of the State. host examples received occurred 
on cedars. 
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CALIPHOE SCALE (Pseudaonidia dunlen CI: 1 !.) 
H. K. Flank (April 2): Careful serrch for this pest to date, 
especially on its host plants rhich --ere sent from Netr Orleans, 
La., and Alvin, Tern., during the past nine years, revealed the 
presence of the camphor scale in several Southern States, i. e. , 
at Belfontaine (12 miles south of Mobile), Grand Bay, Irvington, 
and Shoreacres (5 miles south of Mobile) in Alabama; at Bilosi, 
Hattiesburg, Jack son, and Pass Christian in ."ississippi; at 
Destrehan, Franklin, Gent illy, Hammond, Jennings, tenner, E 
Charles, he" Orleans, Rayvillfi, St. hose, and '~a ggama n in Louisi- 
ana; and at Alvin, ArcaxLia, and Houston in Terras. Following 
prompt eradication measures by the Mississippi State Plant Board, 
no camphor scales have since been found in that State. Althoi: 
it is still to be found in the other three States, its abundance, 
particularly in Alabama and Louisi-:-, -as somewhat affected by 
the freeze of January, 1924, vhen the thermometer Trent to from 
10° to 19° F. on at le r st one occasion. 
The camphor cczle seems to have recovered, ho-ever, from this 
slight setback, especially "here there ":s little or no freezing 
of its hosts, and has ap-*«rently survived the o^st -inter (1924- 
1925) with very little loss, the lowest temperature recorded at 
Net? Orleans having been 31° 1. on Decxnher 21 , •- is 
locality about 51 rar cent of the adult female -ere : 
de _ d from all erne.-" during bout si " :':■; (."anus ; 
ru )« 1924} foil r-ir-s the ffreews «ff January, 1924, the total 
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