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RICE 
RICE STALK BORER' ( Chilo ple/adelius Zinck.) 
W. A. Douglass (July 31): Eight stalks of rice out of 
2,500 examined were infested by the rice stalk "borer. 
SUGARCANE BORER (Diatraea sac char alls Fall . ) 
".V. A. Douglass (July 31): It is interesting to note that 
so far this season no larvae of the sugarcane "borer have been 
found in ricu stalks. 
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Massachusetts 
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New Hampshire 
FOREST AND SHADE-- TREE INSECTS 
BAG- WORM ( Thyridopteryx ephemerae form is Haw.) 
E. W. Mendenhall (July 30) : While the bagworm seems to be 
well parasitized, an outbreak was found in east Dayton, 
infesting a block of pussywillows. 
J. J. Davis (August 19): The bagworm was common on red 
maple at Sullivan, August 5, and very-abundant on gum trees 
at Jasper, August 6. 
M. L. Midlake (August 23): Bagworras are very numerous on 
cedar. 
FALL WJ3BW0RM ( Hyphantria cunea Drury) 
H. B. Peirson (August 16); The fall webworm is generally 
abundant, particularly on elm and willow, throughout the State. 
A. P. Morse (August 12) : The fall webworm is very plentiful 
this year in eastern Massachusetts, at least in Essex and 
southern Middlesex Counties. 
A, I. Bourne (August 22): Trie fall webworm appeared to be 
slightly more abundant than it was last year. This is 
particularly noticeable in the eastern part of the State. 
SADDLED PROMINENT ( Heterocamoa guttivitta W alk.) 
J. 7. Schaffner Jr. (August 11): This species has appeared 
again in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Cutbreaks with 
some severe defoliation of beech and maple have been reported 
from many towns in western Massachusetts. Larvae have been 
found in several localities in the southern section of the 
White Mountains of New Hampshire though not abundant enough 
to cause stripping^ 
