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PIFE 
FIFE BARK APHID ( Chermes pinicorticis Fitch) 
A. G. Ruggles and assistants (June): The pine bark aphid 
is very abundant. 
SOUTHERN PINE 3EETLE ( Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm. ) 
M. H. Brunson (Hay 30): The pine bark beetle has killed 
several pines at .aiken. 
EUROPEAN FIFE SHOOT MOTH ( Ehyacioni a buo liana Schif f . ) 
R. B. Friend (May 21): Larvae are abundant in young red- 
pine plantations near Hamden. 
FIFE LEAF SCALE ( Chionaspis pinifoliae Fitch) 
E. W. Mendenhall (May 29): I find Mugho pine in a nursery 
at Mt. Vernon infested with the pine leaf scale. 
M. H. Swenk (Hay 15-June 15): Complaints of injury by the 
pine leaf scale continued to be received all through May, one 
report coming from as far west as Hitchcock County. 
Mississippi 
POPLAR 
COTTONWOOD LEAF BEETLE (Lina scripta Fab.) 
R. '.7. Harned (June 24): Injury to poplar trees by Mela soma 
sc ripta was reported on June 18 from Eoss Point. 
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• SPRUCE 
SPRUCE BUDWORM ( Harmologa fumiferana Clem.) 
E. L. Chambers (Jun^ 21): The spruce budworm is moderately 
abundant in Jefferson, Milwaukee, and Fond du Lac Counties, 
according to reports. 
A. G. Ruggles and assistants (June): although observed as 
somewhat abundant about St. Paul, this insect is attractirg 
but little attention. 
H. C. Severin (June 24): The spruce budworm is very abunr- 
<±mt on spruce at Arlington.. This is the second outbreak we 
have had in my experience. 
