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New England 
New York 
Maine 
BIRCH LEAF-MUTING SA7PLY ( Phyllotoma nemo ra ta Fall.) 
Monthly Letter, Bureau of Entomology, Ho. 205, (May): A 
small colony of a eulophid, which is opmrently a species 
of Chrysocharis, was liberated in Strong, Me., on May 27. 
This hymenopterous parasite issued from material of P. nemo- 
rata received at the gipsy-moth laboratory from Austria last 
winter. Phyllotoma nemo rata is a leaf-mining sawfly on "birch, 
It appeared in epidemic form in Maine in 1927 and has since 
"been noted in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. 
R. D. Glasgow (June 22): The white-birch leaf-mining saw- 
fly has begun to emerge in Essex County. 
BIRCH CASS BEARER ( Coleothora salmani Hein.) 
H. B. Pierson (June 23): Heavy defoliation is reported at 
Mt. Desert Island and near by towns on the mainland. 
Colorado 
Utah 
30X3LDER 
LEAP ROLLERS (Cacoecia spp. ) 
C. P. Gillette (June 26): C. semjferana is very abundant 
at Greeley, stripping boxeldcr trees. 
G. P. Xnowlton (J u ne 22): The boxelder leaf rollers, C. 
s emifera na Walk. . and C. neg undana Byar, are defoliating box- 
elder trees in one area at Centerville. Moths are very abund- 
ant at the present time. 
CEDAR 
Nebraska 
Mississippi 
A TORTRICID (Tortrix cockerclla Kearf.) 
M. H. Swenk (May 15 - J-iine 15): Additional infestations 
of cedar trees with the caterpillar Cl epsis cockerella were 
reported from Frontier and R 'dwillow Counties during the 
first half of June. 
A WEEVIL ( Pissofles nem o rensis Germ. ) 
?•"- W. Ham.ed (Juno 19): T.vo specimens were collected on 
Cedrus deoclarq, at Ocean Springs on May 28. Determination by 
L. L- Buchanan. 
