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A LEA3T MINSK ( Br achy s aero sus Melsh. ) 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles and assistants (June): The oak leaf miner is reported 
in Ramsey County. Adults are feeding on elm. 
. PIKE 
3UR0FFAH PIES SHOOT MOTH ( Hhgacionin buo liana Schiff.) 
Massachusetts. J. V. Schaffner, jr. (July 20): In eastern Massachusetts adults 
"began issuing on June 10 and the issuance has continued to the present .date. 
First hatching at Melrose vas noted on June 30. 
MMTUCZ3T PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionia frustrnna Comst.) 
Pennsylvania. 3. P. Felt (July 25): The Natucket pine moth was observed serious- 
ly infesting a small planting of orna-nental pines in the environs of Phila- 
delphia. 
Mississippi. C. Lylc (July 20): Injury to slash pine seedlings by Larvae was re- 
ported July 5. 
A PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Sucosma ^loriola Heinr. ) 
Connecticut. 3, P. Pelt (July 25): The white pine tip moth has caused the kill- 
ing of a number of lateral shoots in Stamford. 
SOUTHHRH PIKE B2FTLF ( Dcndroc tonus frontalis Zimm.) 
Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. R. A. St. George (July): 
During June, 1932, outbreaks of the southern -oine beetle occurred in the Hot 
Springs National Park, Arkansas, in shortleaf pine, taking trees up to 32 
inches in diameter. In Taylor and Lafayette Counties on the western coast of 
Florid.a, in slash and longleaf T)ines, and in the Pisgah National Forest near 
Asheville, 17. C. , in .shortleaf -nine, other outbreaks have occurred. During 
July an extensive outbreak occurred in Charleston and Dorchester Counties in 
the eastern portion o.f South Carolina, in some of the finest loblolly and 
longleaf pine timber in that region. The beetles wore found first in un- 
bumed timberland and later in that burned. In the latter area it is believed 
that more damage is being caused than in the former one. 
HED-H3ADED PI"- SA'.'. : FLY ( iTeodiprion lecontei Fitch) 
Michigan. 23. I. MeDaniel (July 9): Reported to have defoliated all jack pines in 
a good sized nursery at Grand Haven. The larvae are fully tvo- thirds grovrn. 
PISS NEEDLE SCALE ( Chionas-nis ninifoliac Fitch) 
Pennsylvania. J. H. Hnull (July 22): The pine leaf scale is very abundant on 
natural growth of young white pines near Pine Grove Furnace. 
Indiana. II. 0. Deay (July 25): Specimens were received from Milroy, July 19, 
"where they rere attacking "blue saruce. 
