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ELM COCKSCOMB GALL ( Color-ha ulmicola Fitch) 
Ohio. N. E. Howard (September 21): This woolly aphid is so abundant on 
stinkgrass ( Era^rostis cilianensis ) that the c limps are white and very 
noticeable. 
EUR0P2AH ELM SCALE ( Gossyparia spuria Mod.) 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (September 5) : l*he European elm scale is found in 
elrt tree stock in the nurseries. 
OAK 
WIG PRIMER ( Hypermallus villcsus E. ) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (September 2U) : The oak twig pruner has been 
unusually abundant during the past summer. over practically the entire 
State. Nearly all the oaks along the roadsides and in the woodlands 
show more or less infestation, and many of them are beginning to show 
serious effects from the infestations of the last two or three seasons. 
CARPENTER WORM (Prionoxystus robiniae Peck) 
Connecticut. E. P. Eelt (September 23): Carpenter worms were found in 
numbers in a white oak at Old Lyme. 
CYNIPID GALLS (Cynipidae) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September 23): Specimens of oak leaves heavily infes- 
ted with the galls of Amphibolips racemaria Ashm. and Biorhiza forti- 
cornis Walsh ^ere sent in from Knox County on September 10. 
OAK PILL GALL ( Cincticornia pilulae Walsh) 
Pennsylvania. E. P. Eelt (September 23): The oak pill gall is somewhat 
common in the Philadelphia district, probably more important because of 
its disfiguring the foliage than on account of actual injury. 
PINE 
PINE NEEDLE SCALE ( Chionaspis pinifoliae Eitch) 
Connecticut. M. P. Zappe (September): This insect appears to be more abun- 
dant on pines, principally mughc, in nursarios over the entire State 
than usual. 
New York. R. E. Horsey (September 20): A large amount of newly set pine needle 
scale was found on Austrian pine at Rochester on September" 20. 
Utah. G. E, Knowlton (September 27): The pine needle scale has caused con- 
siderable injury to ornamental, and in some places to forest pines and 
spruces, during the summer. 
