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PIKE BARK LOUSE ( Chermes ninicorticis Fitch) 
J. J. Davis (April 23): Received April 19 from Spiceland -here 
it was reported as abundant on pine. 
POPLAR 
C0TTOF.7O0D TLVT CATER] ILLAI ( j g la co soma eel if ornica Pack;) 
Arizona !Te™s Letter Vol. 3, ho. 3 (March 31): The cottonwood- 
tree tent caterpillar -as observed to he extremely numerous dur- 
ing the early part of . arch in certain sections of the Salt River 
Valley. N tive cotton"oods near the bed of the Salt River were 
completely defoliated as "as also a territory approximately three 
miles south of. Phoenin. Probably the most abundant outbreak of 
the caterpillar was near the Phoenix Indian School "here prac- 
tically all of the cotton-Dods of the immediate visinity were 
completely defoliated. A number of complaints -^ere made to the 
office of the State Entomologist that the tT "orms" '-ere entering 
dwellings and thus making themselves a nuisance. Several cases 
•^ere observed where the foliage of rose bushes and fruit trees 
had "oeen eaten by the caterpillars. 
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A'^T T A C Z I h G GREZITHOUSL 
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EUONYIJJS SCALE ( Chion?smis euonvmi Corns t. ) 
P. Sherman (larch 31): The four complaints -hich -e have re- 
ceived of this insect in the last three months aXQ more than usual, 
APHXDIDAS 
Oliver I. Snapp (April 14): At Port Valley aphids have been un- 
usually abundant this spring, especially on ornamentals. 
LIPIhO~ThROUS 
jouisiana 
T. E. Hollo way (April 15): A large lepidopterous larva has beer- 
reported as injuring lawns and golf greens in New Orleans. Dr. 
R. D. Rands, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has just sent us 
specimens from Houma, La., There "large areas of pasture are 
being killed out and the townspeople are having trouble with it 
in their lawns." The larva tunnels through the soil. It is 
reported that it can be controlled ~"ith carbon- disulfide emulsion, 
