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PIME ' '• 
PIHE BARK' APHID ( Pineus strobi Htg.) 
Wisconsin, E. L. Chambers (May 21): The pine bark louse seems to be very 
abundant everywhere this spring v&ere white and Horway pine are growing, 
PI1TE 1IEEDLE SCALE ( Chionaspis pinifoliae Pitch) 
Connecticut. E. P. Eolt (May 23): The pine leaf scale is generally present 
on mugho and Austrian pines in particular. A heavy infestation has been 
noted at Hartford. 
Ohio. E. W, Mcndenhall (May lU) : The pine leaf scale is abundant on Scotch, 
Austrian, mugho, and other species of pine in Cuyahoga County, 
Iowa. C, J. Drake (May 23): The winter mortality of the pine leaf scale 
is quite high in central Iowa. We found only two living eggs under 400 
scales at Ames, 
ITebraska. M. H. Swenlc (May 20): Spruce twigs infested by the pine leaf 
scale were sent from Dixon County on. April 26, 
SCOTCH PIHE SCALE ( Toumeyol la numis maticum Pettit & McDaniel) 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (May 21): Jack pine throughout the central part 
of the State seems quite generally infested with the Scotch pine scale, 
and in Adams and Juneau Counties many trees have been killed as a result 
ef attack. 
SYCAMORE 
SYCAMORE SCALE ( stomacoccus platani Ferris) 
California. R. E. Campbell (May 15): During the latter part of April and 
the first part of May numerous complaints were received regarding 
leather -winged "beetles, Cantharis censors Lee. , particularly on syca- 
mores at Alhambra. An examination proved that those beetles were feed- 
ing on a small coccid, probably S, .p latani . Although considered a bene- 
ficial insect, they proved to be of considerable annoyance in many back- 
yard sycamores. One tree not over 15 feet high was treated. Several 
square-foot counts of the beetles on the ground under the tree after 
treatment showed that this comparatively small tree had over 25,000 
beetles on it. 
WILLOW 
EUROPEAN WILLOW BEETLE ( Plagiodera versicol^ra Laich. ) 
Massachusetts. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (May 21): Adults of the imported willow 
leaf "beetle wore found active on May 12 in Melrose 'and eggs were noted 
on the lUth. This species seems to "be fully as abundant as last year. 
