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WALKING STICK tejag^OTcmira femorata Say) 
Massachusetts A*. I„ Bourne (September 2b): We have had complaints of common 
talking sticks from severe! points in the ftate. They have 
"been reported as attacking oak and ha/e also been collected 
from raspberry,, Reports extend from the Connecticut River 
Valley as far East as Worcester. 
.ichigan R a H* Pettit (September 9): I wish to state an unusual attack 
on scarlet oak at West Branchy in the Ogemaw forest, reported 
"by the State forester, who brought in a large number of common 
walking sticks. Ke reported that the attack was in spoti, certain 
areas of as much as 3 "acres being entirely defoliated. 
OAK SPANGLES ( Cecidom yia pocalum 0. S. ) 
Virginia N„ Rex Hunt (August 25): The galls on Quercu s sp„, collected 
near Clarendon, have been determined by D. 3„ Young ( in the 
absence of Dr„ Felt) as Cec ido myja poculuir.c;0«,S. 
pine 
WHITE-PIKE WEEVIL (Pis codes strobi Peck) 
Michigan Eugenia Mc Daniel (Augnst 25); The white-pine weevil is working 
in great numbers in. the gack pine forests in and about Alpena. 
Many of the dealer -3 have been killed back and injury in general 
is renorted by our field men in that region. 
PII1E 3ARX LOUSE (Chermes, jA ^icortic,? s Eitch) 
Obio Herbert Osborn (September 13).: Specimens of the pine bark 
louse were received from Portsmouth, indicating a rather 
severe infestation of this irsect in that locality. 
PINE-LEAF SCALE (Chionaspis 2JJiif oliae Eitch) 
Ohio Herbert Osborn (SeiJter.ber 19): Specimens of the pine-leaf scale 
were received from Portsmouth, indicating a rather severe 
infestation of this insect in that locality* 
LODGEP0LE FUSE SA'tELY AMD LEAP TYEB ' (Species undetermined) 
GENERAL F» .C.. Craighead (September 30); Two unknown insects have 
suddenly become epidemic in the Madison National Forest and 
Yellowstone National Park in the vicinity of West Yellowstone. 
These insects were first noted in 1920 on an area of about 1 
square mile. Since then th'ey have spread over 100 square 
miles and nearly every tree in dead on about 30 miles. A similar 
outbreak cf the sawfly not accompanied by the leaf-tyer occurs 
in the Payette national Forest. 
