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The winter mortality of the cartage flea-beetle, Phyllotreta albionica Lee. , 
at Agassiz, Be C e , has hern about 10 pat cent, slightly higher than similar 
records of the pest. The winter was decidedly wet, v;ith the spring "breaking 
much earlier than usual « 
The overwintering death rate of the European corn borer in eight of 
the most severely infested fields in the vicinity of Fort Stanley, Ontario, 
was 13-05 P G r cent as against O.0-+ p^r cent last year. 
Tent caterpillar outbreaks are being reported from the interior sections 
of British Columbia and from several points in southern Saskatchewan* In the 
humid transitional area between Sicamous and Revel stoke, aspen poplar twigs, 1 
foot in length showed f to 10 egg masses en them this spring. Caterpillars 
hatching between April 7 and 12 were, at the end of May, very conspicuous. 
.an outbreak of the spruce budwor m , Tor tr ix f urn if er ana Clem., has taken 
place in the Quetico district of western Ontario. White pine in the same 
district is being attacked by borers belonging to a species of Monochamus, 
