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A SCALE ( Kcrmos pubcscens Bogue) 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (August 22): Reported fron Sioux City, western Iowa, 
and Lanont, eastern Iowa. Apparently unusually abundant in the State 
this year. 
PIKE 
WHITE-PIKE tfEEVIL ( Pissodcs strobi Peck) 
Massachusetts. E. P. Felt (August 23): Injury reported fron near Boston. 
Connecticut. E. P. Felt (August 23): Damage reported fron here and there 
in southwestern Connecticut. 
SOUTHERN PIKE BEETLE ( Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm.) 
Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. W. J. Schoenc (August 23): A 
serious outbreak occurred during the last 12 months over a wide area 
extending fron southern Maryland to eastern North Carolina, with heavy 
injury near West Point and Franklin, Ya. Losses ostinated very high. 
Extremely v/ct weather during June and July was unfavorable to the 
insect, so no spread was noted and new injury is difficult to find. 
A BARK BEETLE ( Pityophthorus sp.) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (August 2h): Specimens roceived fron the 
eastern part of the State, with the report that they were causing 
serious injury to white pine. 
NANTUCKET PINS SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionia frustrana Const.) 
Maryland. C. A. Weigol (July 5) ' First observed on July 5 on nugho pine 
at Silver Spring and Beltsville, where it was causing almost 100-pcrcent 
destruction of tips on ornamental plantings. 
SPRUCE BUDtfORM ( Cacoecia fumiferana Clem.) 
Minnesota. R. H. Nagel (July 21): Common in the Minnesota-Ontario border 
region. About 10 square miles of jack pine on the Cut Foot Sioux 
Ranger District, Chippewa National Forest, heavily infested. 
PANDORA MOTH ( Coloradia pandora Blake) 
Colorado. N. D. Wygant (August 1 ): A heavy flight of moths during July 
from the infestation on the Arapahoe National Forest observed at G-ranby, 
north-central Colorado. Moths spread over a much larger area and 
thousands of females were attracted to lights in the nearby towns. 
Eggs have not started to hatch. 
