CLOVEF. MITE ( Bryobia orn.eti.osa Koch) 
New Hampshire* E. P. Felt (March 24): Eggs cere extraordinarily abundant 
upon elms at Hanover, and apparently eggs and young mites have not been 
killed to any appreciable extent by the low temperatures. 
PUIS 
EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH (Rhyacionia buo liana Schiff.) 
Massachusetts . P. A. Berry, Monthly Letter Eur. Ent. , No. 237 (February): 
One hundred larvae were removed from infested shoots of pine collected 
in each locality of T7akefield and Brookline, and were examined to 
ascertain if they were living or dead. In each collection only 1 of the 
100 larvae examined was alive. It is presumed that the death of the 
larvae was due to the unusually low temperatures of the latter part of 
December. Two of the larvae from Wakefield and 7 from Brookline con- 
tained the immature stage of a parasite of the genus Orgilus.all dead. 
Adults of 0. obscurator (Nees) , a parasite received from Europe, had been 
liberated in each of the infestations from which the European pine shoot 
moth larvae were obtained and it was probably this species that was 
found in the parasitized larvae. 
Connecticut. W. S. Britton (March 23): From 80 to 90 percent of the larvae 
in the shoots have been killed during the winter. Red, Scotch and mugho 
pines in south-central Connecticut a.re attacked. 
PINE TUEE MOTH (Eulia pinatuoana Kearf.) 
New York. E. P. Felt (March 24): The pine tube moth has been reported as 
locally abundant at Locust Valley, L. I. 
MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE ( Dendroc tonus monticolae Hopk. ) 
Idaho. J. C. Evenden, Monthly Letter Bur. Ent., No. 237 (February): In 
1-27 a small outbreak was reported from the eastern portion of the 
Nezperce National Forest. This outbreak was apparently a chance infes- 
tation from the severe epidemic that existed in the lodgepole pine stands 
of the Bitterroot and Salmon Forests. Since that date the infestation 
has spread northward, devastating all lodgepole pine stands in its path. 
An analysis of the 1933 ranger reports shows that this epidemic has 
passed through the Nezperce and Selway Forests, and now rests in the 
Clearwater, with a few spots of infestation on the St. Joe Forest. 
Although it is accepted that the remaining lodgepole pine stands within 
these forests are doomed, the seriousness of the situation rests upon 
the possibility that the insect may transfer its attack to white pine 
after depleting the lodgepole pine stands. As these tree species are 
equally acceptable hosts of the insect, and as white pine in association 
with lodgepole is already being attacked on the Clearwater , there is but 
small hope that such an occurrence will not take place. There are large 
bodies of valuable western white pine on the Clearwater and St. Joe 
National Forests which at this time are seriously threatened. 
