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POPLAR 
POPLAR TENTMAKER ( ichthyura inclusa Hbn. ) 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (July 25): This pest has injured poplars in Morgan County, 
southeastern Ohio. Specimens received on July 9. 
E. W. Mendenhall. (July lU) : Is doing some damage to poplars in 
nurseries in Licking County, north-central Ohio. 
A LEAF BEETLE ( Chrysomela tremulae P. ) 
Minnesota. H* J. MacAloney (July 2l): This "beetle is fairly common on aspen all 
over the Superior National Forest. Eggs and young larvae were also found 
on July 18. 
COTTONWOOD LEAF 3EETLE ( Chrysomela scripta F. ) 
Nebraska. M. II. Swenk (July 23): Sent in on June 2J from Butler County, in 
eastern Nebraska, with the report that this species, together with the 
goldsmith-beetle ( Cotalpa lanigera L.). was defoliating cottonwood trees. 
NEVADA BUCK MOTH ( Hemileuca nevadens is Stretch) 
Nebraska. D. B. Whelan (July 26): Caterpillars were feeding on cottonwood 
leaves in Logan and Custer Counties, in central Nebraska, early in July. 
SPRUCE 
EUROPEAN SPRUCE SAWFLY ( Diprion polytomum Htg. ) . 
New Hampshire and Vermont. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (July 15): Areas around Lincoln, 
western Vermont, and Wilmington, eastern Vermont, and Dublin and Temple, 
in southwestern New Hampshire, which were found "heavily infested in 1937» 
are again heavily infested. Cocoons of the first generation were found 
commonly on July o. 
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A SAWFLY (Pikonema alas kens is Rohw. ) 
Minnesota. H. J. MacAloney (July 21): Throughout northern Minnesota the yellow- 
headed spruce sawfly is common. Individual small trees here and there 
have nearly all of the 1938 needles eaten, but over the region as a whole 
the damage is slight. 
AIT APHID ( C hemes lariciatus Patch) 
Michigan. R. Hutson (July 25): Found on white spruce at Manistique, Schoolcraft 
County, Upper Peninsula, on June 30. 
SFRUCE »HTE ( Paratetranychus uniunguis Jacob i) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (July 23): Mite injury on spruce has been quite 
common in the State. 
