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MAPLE 
GREEN-STRIPED MAPLE i/VORM ( Anisota rubicunda Fab.) 
TWO-LINED PROMINENT ( Heterocampa bilineata Pack.) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (August 22): I wish to report another outbreak 
of the green-striped maple worm, and the two-lined prominent, 
attacking the maples and other hardwoods in the hill towns of 
Franklin, Hampshire, and Berkshire Counties. The same 
infestation also extended over a considerable area in southern 
Vermont. A similar outbreak was reported in the same area 
in 1317 and 1918 and was of similar proportions to the present 
outbreak. Reports of this outbreak came in during late July 
and early August. There was considerable defoliation. The 
situation was so serious that appeals were made to the State 
Department of Conservation for assistance in controlling the 
pest. 
MAPLE NEPTICULA ( Ilepticula sericooeza Zell.) 
Rhode Island A. E. Stene (August 28): Nepticula sericopeza Zell. found 
abundant in Norway maplo seeds at east Greenwich. Corroborated 
by Bromley Bartlett Laboratories. 
MAPLE BLADDER GALL ( Phyllocootes quadripes Shim.) 
Indiana J. J. Davis (August IS): The bladder maple gall was reported 
as abundant on soft maple at Logansport August 14. 
OAK TWIG PRUNER ( H ype rmal jus villosus Fab.) 
New Hampshire P. R. Lowry (August): The oak twig pruner has been received 
several times during August from southeastern New Hampshire, 
in oak and apple . 
Rhode Island A. E. Stene (August 28): The oak tree pruner has been more 
abundant than usual . 
New England H. J. MacAloney (August 26): The maple and oak twig pruner 
is much more numerous in southern New England than it has been 
observed before. 
PI IS 
A BARK BEETLE ( Ips calligra-ohus Germ.) 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (August 20): Ips calligraphus Germ, is attacking 
living longleaf pines (P. palustris ) in southern George County 
that have been weakened by heavy turpentining and possibly 
drought. The adjoining timber .was cut this spring. 
