Illinois 
Connecticut 
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OYSTER-SHELL SCALE ( Lepidosaphes ulmi L.) 
C. C. Compton (July): Several severe infestations on ash 
have come to my attention in Cook County. 
SPRUCE MITE ( Paratetranychus uniungius Jacobi) 
W. E. Britton (July 24) : This insect was reported at Beacon 
Falls and Old Lyme, attacking spruce and arborvitae. 
Utah 
ASH ■* - 7 
ASH APHID ( Prociphilus frrxinifolii Thos.) 
G. F. Knowlton (July 3): Ornamental ash trees are having 
their leaves seriously curled. 
BEECH :*$*" . 
WOOLLY BEECH APHID ( Prociphilus imbricator Fitch) 
Connecticut E. P. Felt (July 26): The beech-tree blight- aphid has been 
and reported so abundant at Hartford, Conn., and Scarsdale, N. Y., 
New York as literally to cover portions of the trunk and the larger 
branches of beech trees. 
Connecticut 
Mai ne 
Maine 
BIRCH •■ ... ■' 
BRONZE BIRCH BORER ( Agrilus anxius Gory) 
W. E. Britton (July 11): This borer on European white 
birch is reported in New Canaan. 
BIRCH CASE BEARER ( Coleophora salmani Hein.) 
H. B. Peirson (July 22): Almost complete defoliation of 
birch in stands on Mount Desert Island by the birch case bearer, 
BIRCH LEAF-MINING SA^LY ( Phyllotoma ' nemo rata Fallen) 
H, B. Peirson (July 22): The birch leaf -mining sawfly promises 
to be very generally abundant. 
Minnesota 
BOXELDER 
BOXELDSR APHID ( Periphyllus negundinis Thoe.) 
R. C. Shaw (July 18): Aphids are moderately abundant at 
Penham. Some trouble on boxelder. 
