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WOOLLY APPLE APHID ( Eriosoma lani^erum Hausm. ) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (June 22): Rather heavy infestations on elm were reported 
from Como in Panola County on May 25, from McComb in Pike County on May 26, 
and from Senatobia in Tr.te County on June 14. 
EUROPEAN ELM SCALE ( G-oasyparia spuria Mod.) 
Maine. H. 3. Peirson (June 8): The elm bark louse is abundant at Augusta. 
Pennsylvania. J. N. Knull (June 9): The European elm scale is abundant on 
wild slippery elms in the vicinity of Hummelstown, Dauphin County. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 20) J The -European elm scale was reported very 
abundant and destructive to elms at Lafayette, June 5. This pest is definite- 
ly increasing in importance. 
Ohio. E. TJ. Mendenhall (June 2): The European elm scale is very bad on elms in 
Columbus. 
HEMLOCK BARK BORER ( Melanophila fulvoguttata Harr. ) 
New York. E. P. Pelt (June 23): The hemlock borer was associated at Port Chester 
with the killing of several large hemlocks, presumably weakened by the dry 
weather of the past few seasons. 
Pennsylvania. J. N. Knull (June 2): The spotted hemlock borer is doing consider- 
able damage to virgin hemlocks near Sheffield. Many trees have been killed. 
LARCH 
LARCH CASE BEARER ( Coleophora laricella Hbn. ) 
New England and New York. J. V. Schaffner, jr. (May 25): This case bearer seems 
to vrry from very common to abundant on larch wherever it grows in the North- 
eastern S t^tes. 
Maine. H. B. Peirson (June): The larch ease bearer is general over the -State. 
Adults were swarming at Augusta June 10, and starting to emerge in Lincoln. 
Connecticut, R. B. Eriend (June 22): Appears to have been more abundant than 
usual this spring at Litchfield, Lakeville, and Cornwall. 
New York. E. P. Felt (June 24): The larch case bearer is very abundant and 
injurious in the Berkshire and northern sections to Granville, and the Adiron- 
dack s. 
LOCUST 
LOCUST BORER ( Cyllene robiniae Fo'rst.) 
New York. E. P. Pelt (June 24): Locust borers are unusually abundant in the 
Poughkeepsie area, -nd badly infested trees show a wilting and drying up of 
