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FALL CANKER WORM (Al sophila pone tar ia Harr.) 
Connecticut and New York.. E. P. Pelt (March l): Eggs were deposited in 
extraordinarily large numbers 1 ' last fall in southwestern Connecticut, 
southeastern New York and western Long Island in particular, and the 
probabilities are that the outbreak may approach in magnitude the almost 
unprecedented one of last year. 
SOUTHERN FUSE BEEIELE ( Sendrcc tonu s frontalis Zimra.) 
Virginia and Pennsylvania. Div. of Forest Insects, 5ur. Ent. (February 16): 
Four days of unusually cold weather in the last week in December resulted 
in a mortality of from 70 to 90 percent of the brood of the southern 
pine beetle in a concentrated infestation near Fairfax, Va. The brood 
in all of the trees was killed, except in the thicker barked portions of' 
the larger trees. It is very likely that the later cold period of the 
last two weeks has resulted in added mortality. As the eggs are consider- 
ably more resistant to cold than any other stage, it is feared that a 
safe mortality has nut yet occurred. The infestation, which during the 
recent mild seasons has extended up through Virginia well into Pennsylvania 
has received a very decided setback by lev/ temperatures, as a very large 
percentage of the overwintering forms have been killed by the cold in 
northern Virginia. 
ASH 
CARPENTER WORM ( prionoxystus robiniae Peck) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (February 15): A report of a considerable infestation 
of ash trees in Nuckolls County was received early in January. 
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EUROPEAN ELI.: SCALE ( Go say" 1 aria spuria Mod.) 
Colorado. G. M. List (February 20): The European elm scale has increased 
during the last year or two, end the open winter has not caused a very 
high mortality; so we expect it to be more injurious than usual. 
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A N0T0D0NTID (Dasylophia anguina A. & S.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (February 21): E. a nguir.a reported moderately abundant 
at Oak Hill on October 14, 1933. (A notodontid moth known to feed on 
locust and other legumes. J. A. H.) 
MAPLE 
GLOOMY SCALE ( Chry somphalus tenebricosus Comst.) 
North Carolina. Z. P. Metcalf (February 19) : The gloomy scale on maples is 
more abundant than for th*. cast few years. A few specimens are parasitized. 
