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PINE • 
A CHRYSOMELID ( Colaspis pini 3arbcr) 
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Mississippi and Louisiana. T. E. Snyder (July 2k): Pine needles "being Drowned 
and trees "believed to "be dying from- the effects of feeding at Covington 
and Slidell, St. Tannany Parish, La., and at Gulfport, Miss. 
SAWFLIES ( Neodiprion spp. ) 
Vermont. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (July 18): Larvae of Neodiprion sp. sent to the 
laboratory with a report that they were taken on red pines in Rutland 
County. The infested plantation is about 20 years old and about 1 acre 
has been severely defoliated. This is the species which has "been prevalen 
in eastern Massachusetts the last 3 years. 
Connecticut, E. P. Eelt (July 22) J N. pine tun Nort. is quite prevalent on a 
snail planting of pine at Dahbury. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (July 25): Larvae of N. aVootti Leach were received on July 
20 fron Knox County, in north-central Ohio, with the statenent that they 
had caused serious injury to white pine. 
Michigan. R. Ilutson (July 25): N. pinetun was reported on white pine at Crosse 
Pointo, Wayne County, and at Grand Rapids, Kent County. 
A S.WELY ( Neodiprion sertifer Geof f r. ) 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (July 12): Received on Norway pine fron Grayling, 
northern Lower Peninsula. The sawflies were attacking the nature growth 
of the pines. (Det. R. A. Cushnan.) 
LODGEPOLE NEEDLE MINER ( Recurvaria nilleri 3usck) 
California. J. E. Patterson (July 13): Specimens have been taken fron pinon pine 
in the Inyo National Eorest, (Det. A. Dusck. ) 
A MOTH ( Pinipestes z inner nanni Grote) 
Wisconsin. H. A. MacAloney (July 2l): In a 12-year-old nixed stand of Scotch 
and jack pine at White Eish 3ay, Milwaukee County, the forner is heavily 
infested, whereas the latter species is only slightly infested. When the 
trees were examined on July 7 the larvae were nearly full grown. 
A SCALE INSECT ( Matsucoccus r.iatsunurae Kuw, ) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (July 23): An infested twig of pitch pine, Pinus 
rd^ida, was received fron Lexington. The extent of the infestation was 
not reported.. 
