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OAK LECANIUM ( Locaniun guercifcx Pitch) 
South Carolina. "/. C. Nettles (April 22): Lccaniun (soft scale) is 
noticeable on oaks. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 23): The oak lecaniu-n has "been active 
in Auburn and central Alabama. 
PINS 
PINE TU3E MOTK ( Argyro taenia ' pinatubana Kearf . ) 
New York and Now Jersey. E. ?. Felt (April 23): Tho pine tube noth was 
found to he locally ahundant at Moores Kill, Dutchess County, IT. "Y. , and 
at Englowood, N. J. 
EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionia bu61iana , Schiff.) 
Michigan. Hay Hut son (April 25): The European pine shoot noth has "been 
reported from Detroit, in southeastern Michigan, and from Grand 
I.apids and Kalanazoo, in southwestern Michigan. 
SAWPLIES ( Neodiprion spp.) 
Massachusetts. J. V. Schaffncr, Jr. (April lU): In the fall. of 1937 
there was a heavy, or.: deposit- "by an unidentified species of 
Ivcodiprion in red pine plantations and in at least one natural 
stand in Middlesex County. In one heavily infested plantation at 
Grotpn, U7 infested tips of side branches contained^ 2,1^9 eggs, or 
an average of U5-7 eggs per tip. 
Michigan. R. Hutson (April 25): European pine .sawfly (N. Danksiariae "." 
Rohw.) has "been reported as just hatching in Detroit. 
SOUTHERN PINS BEETLE ( Dendroc tonus frontalis Zina.) 
Alabana. J. M. Robinson (April): The pine bark beetle was reported as 
killing sons large pine trees at the University of Alabama. 
PITCH EATING WEEVIL ( Pachylobi us picivorus Germ.') ' 
Florida. J. R, Watson (April 23): Numbers of this pitch eating beetle 
were sent in from Argylc, where they were reported as being very 
abundant . 
PALES WEEVIL ( Hylobius pales Hbst.) 
Alabana. J. M. Robinson (April Ik) : Pales weevil was reported attack- 
ing spruce pines at Wodowce on April lU. 
