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OAK 
ORANGE- STRIPED OAK WORM (Anisota senator la S. & A. ) 
Rhode Island. A. 2. Stene (September 25): The striped oak caterpillar has "been 
sent in and complained of in two or three places as defoliating oak. 
Connecticut. J. V. Schaffner, jr. (September 22): In the townships of Gr&swold, 
Lisbon, Preston, Ledyard, and. Groton many black and red oaks show heavy feed- 
ing. She defoliation varies from a single "branch to entire trees scattered 
throughout the towns named. Ifany larvae were noted on September 12 and 13. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (September 25): The orange- striped Oral- caterpillar was 
defoliating oaks at louts, September 7. 
A NOTODONTID ( Symmerist'a alhifrons S. & A. ) 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. J. V. Schaffner, .jr. 
(September 12 to 19): Larvae were found quite generally in oak woodlands, 
principally on white oak in the vicinity of Thompson, Conn., Hopkinton, R. I., 
and Hiddleboro, Mass, At the Rhode Island locality the white-oak foliage was 
very ragged and the larvae abundant. 
A LEAF MINER ( lithocelletis hamadryadella Clem.) 
Massachusetts. 71. P. Pelt (September 25): The white blotch oak leaf miner is 
somewhat abundant on oaks at Westwood. 
LEOONTE'S SAWPLY ( iToodl prion leconteL Pitch) 
Florida. J. P.. Watson (September 21); One complaint of the depredations by leeionte's 
sawfly on pines was reported from Jacksonville. 
TWO-LUTED CHESTNUT PORTER (A^rilus bil ineatus 17 eb.) 
Minnesota. A. G. Haggles (September 21): More abundant than usual, probably owing 
to the dry weather reducing the vitality of the oaks. 
Iowa. C. J. Brake (September 27): Injury is beginning to show up quite generally 
in the northern half of Iowa, In many groves large numbers of oak trees have 
been killed. ' *"• "' ■ 
L032D OAK GALL (C ynips strnbilana 0. S. ) 
Massachusetts. "\ P. Felt (September 25): The lobed oak gall was somewhat abun- 
dant on a. white oak at Concord, the brilliant red gall clusters si - con- 
spicuously. 
PINE 
NANTUCKET PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacioria frustrana Comst.) 
Massachusetts. J. N. Knull (September 30): Nantucket pine moth was abundant in 
the terminals of pitch pine on Cape Cod September 25. 
