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Maine 
New York 
witch hazel, red niaple, native hawthorne, domestic and 
wild cherry, basswood, shingle oak, white ash, and American 
elm. Flowering dogwood, spicebush, sassafras, and tupelo 
had vary few on them even when next to badly infested 
hickori es. 
LARCH CASE-BEARER (Coleophora laricella Kuebn.) 
E, M, Patch (June 26): John Kellenberger reports a good 
many trees being affected at Rockland, This insect is also 
abundant near Bangor this year, 
A. Ft Burgess (June 30) : This species is reported as 
common on larch in Penobscot, Oxford, and Hancock Counties, 
LOCUST 
LOCUST BORER ( Cyllene robiniae Forst.) 
M, D. Leonard (July 17): Most of the black locusts in the 
Qity parks at Albany are very generally infested. Considerable 
good was done tfffl years ago by the application of a tree 
wash, as reported by the 'City Forester, 
J» J, Levison through M, D. Leonard { JulyUj) : The locust 
borer is doing considerable damage to locusts in various 
parts of Long Island. 
MAPLE 
GREEN-STRIPED MAPLE WORM (Anisota rubicunda Fab,) 
Kansas Geo. A f Dean (June 25)2. This species is reported from 
Delia, Jackson County. Trees are defoliated., It was 
rainy and cool from May 1 to l6 and hot ens: dry from May 
16 to 25, 
Iowa p, D. Butcher (July 2k) j In a maple grove on a farmstead 
in Page County the caterpillars stripped about one-third 
of the trees. Most of them have pupated. This is the 
only report this year. 
COTTONY MAPLE SCALE ( Pulvinaria vitis L.) 
New York C* R, Crosby (July l6): Infested silver maple twigs were 
received from Elmira, 
Indiana J, J, Davis (July l6): The cottony maple scale continues as a 
serious shade-tree pest in the northern half of the State but 
possibly not quite as generally severe as last year. The first 
young were observed at Portland July 3» They may have begun 
to hatch a day or two before, . tod adV 
STATE PLANT BOARD 
