POPLAR 
COTTOE/OOD LEAF BEETLE ( Chrysomela scrinta Fab.) 
Pennsylvania. G v Ll. Varhey [AugupJ 22): Samples." of a leaf-eating beetle which 
is rapidly assuming epidemic stages on the young.- aspen, or Pp-pulus . tremuloide 
stands on the Allegheny National Forest at. Marienville. 
BILLOW CURCULIO ( Crypto rhynchus la nath i L. ) 
Minnesota. A. G-. Ruggles (September 26): Abundant on poplar near Savage; re- 
ported previously from Rochester, 
• ' SPRUCE 
EASTERN SPRUCE BEETLE ( Dendroc tonus mceanerda Hopk. ) 
Maine. H. B. Pelrson (September 6): An outbreak is occurring in Township 1, 
Range 7, and considerable virgin spruce is being destroyed. 
HED TURPENTINE BEETLE (Sntomos celis adonidis Pal.) 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (September 22): The red turpentine beetle is present in 
East on on silver spruce. 
SPRUCE BUD705M ( Haraolosa fumiferan a Clem.) 
Wisconsin. S. L. Chamber's (September 27) : The spruce budworm continued its 
ravages in several northern Wisconsin counties, defoliating large numbers of 
pines and spruce, trees. One entire section of forest trees w a s practically 
completely defoliated in Bayfield County. 
SYCAMORE 
SYCAMORE LACEBUG- ( Corythucha ciliata Say) 
New England and New York. E. F. Felt. (September 23): The sycamore lacebug ha 
been unusually abundant and injurious in late summer throughout much of sout! 
western New England and southeastern Nev. York, the foliage on sycamore sprou' 
being especially favored and somewhat generally discolored. 
; • •■VILLOUS 
ALDER FLEA BEETLE (H altica bimar^inata Say) 
Michigan. . E. I. McDaniel (August 30): The alder flea beetle is doing serious 
damage to billows' along the shores of Lake Huron, in the vicinity of Bay Cit; 
In some places the beetles have completely stripped the foliage from these 
trees for miles along the lake shore. The second brood have just emerged 
and are congregating on the new foliage .in swarms. 
