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PINE BARK APHID ( Pineus strobi Htg.) 
Ohio. E, W. Mendenhall (August 11): Found in a nursery at Gahanna, 
Pranklin County, on white pine. 
SCOTCH PINE LECANIUM ( Toumeyella numismaticum P. & McD.) 
Michigan. R. Hutson (August 22): Numerous on jack pine at Kenton, in the 
western part of the Upper Peninsula, on August U. 
A PINE SCALE ( Physokerraes ins igni cola Crawf.) 
Texas. R. K. Fletcher (August 22): Loblolly pine attacked in Brazos County. 
PINE NEEDLE SCALE (Chionaspis pinifoliao Fitch). 
Nebraska. 14. H. Swenk (August 23) J Inquiry as to control sent from Scotts 
Bluff County, western Nebraska, on August 3. 
POPLAR 
COTTONWOOD BORER ( Plcctrodera scalator F.) 
Oklahoma. N. D. Wygant (August 22): Extensive damage "being done to cotton- 
wood in the United States Forest Service plantings in western Oklahoma. 
Trees from one to several years old are infested. Heavily infested 
trees "break off in the wind. 
SPRUCE - 
SPRUCE BUD SCALE ( Physokermcs piceac Schr.) 
Michigan. R. Hutson (August 22): Spruce "bud scale received from Birmingham, 
southeastern Michigan, on August 7« 
SPRUCE MITE ( Paratetranychus uniunguis Jacobi) 
Pennsylvania. H. E. Hodgkiss (August 25): Reported as causing damage in 
various places. 
SUMAC 
CATERPILLARS ( Pat ana sp.) 
Missouri. L. Haseman (August 2h) : Early in August complaints and specimens 
of caterpillars feeding on sumac were received. Field check-up at 
Columbia indicated wild sumac as infested- by the same caterpillar. 
On August 2k caterpillars had just completed their feeding and were 
pupating. 
