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LOCUST 
LOCUST BORER ( Cyllene robiniae Forst.) 
E. W. Mendenhall (June 15): The locust borer is very bad 
in Columbus on ornamental locust trees planted on private 
properties. 
LOCUST LEAF MIDGE ( Qbolodiplosis robiniae Hald.) 
E. P. Pelt (June 24): The locust leaf midge was reported as 
generally infesting honey locust near Farmingdale, Long Island. 
A TREEHOPPER ( Vanduzea arcuata Say) 
J. N. Knull (June 10): This membracid is very abundant on 
black locust in Horse Valley, Franklin County. The adults and 
nyrphs are attended by the red mound-building ants ( Formica 
exsectoides Forel) . 
MAPLE 
MAPLE LEAF STEM BORER ( Priophoru s acericaulis MacG.) 
W. E. Eritton (June 23): Seemingly more abundant than for 
several years. 
COTTONY MAPLE SCALE ( Pulvinaria vitis L.) 
E. W. Mendenhall (June 8): Injury extremely severe on soft 
maple trees on State and Center Streets in Springfield^and 
Greenville. They are so abundant that the undersides of the 
limbs are white with this cottony substance and the leaves wet 
with their secretions. The twigs and larger lirrbs are dying. 
MAPLE NSPTICULA ( Nepticula s ericoT>eza Zell.) 
E. P, Felt (June 24): The maple Nepticula is breeding in 
lp.rge numbers in the seeds of Norway maple in southwestern 
New England and southeastern New York north at least to 
Poughkeepsie. 
PINS 
EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionia buoliana Schiff.) 
J. V. Schaffner, jr. (June 18): In eastern Massachusetts the 
severe infestations still persist. Most of the infestations 
are in ornamental plantings of Austrian, red, Scotch, and Mugho 
pines. Moths began issuing in the laboratory on June 10. 
