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Illinois C. C« Compton (December 20,1928): This aphid was causing 
.. severe injury to cyclamen at Des Plaines "before it was discovered 
"by the grower. Feeding almost entirely on buds and opening 
blooms, A single aphid on a bud sufficient to cause deformed 
bloom, 
PITTISPORUM 
COTTONY CUSHION SCALE ( icerya purchasi Mask. ) 
South Carolina M. H, Brunson . (February 14;): This insect has killed several 
pittisporum plants of this locati&Q' (Columbia). Has damaged 
plants in two consecutive years. Is not a common scale in South 
Carolina. 
Louisiana 
Connecticut 
and 
New York 
FOREST AND S H a D E- T RE E INSECTS 
C^-'iPHOR 
CAMPHOR SC^LE ( pseudaonidea duclex Ckll.) 
»»• E. Hinds (February 23): Complaints of camphor scale affect- 
ing camphors, japonicas, etc., have been received from several 
parties in the vicinity of Crowley. The infestation is extremely 
heavy judging from some of the samples received. 
LaSCH 
LARCH CASE BEARER ( Coleophora l aricella Hbn, ) 
E» P* Felt (February 23) : This insect is very abundant upon 
some trees at Greenwich, Conn,, and has been reported as gener- 
ally present and numerous in the Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , area. 
MAPLE 
JAPANESE MAPLE SCALE (Leucaspis japonica Ckll.) 
Connecticut E. P, Felt (February 23): The Japanese maple scale is becoming 
and locally abundant and injurious upon Norway and soft maples fit 
Rhode Island Greenwich, Conn., and has become established at '.Vest bury, R.I, 
COTTONY MAPLE SCALE ( Pulvinaria vitis L, ) 
Connecticut 
Nebraska 
E, P, Felt (February 23): The cottony maple scale is locally 
abundant upon soft maples, many of the inconspicuous young 
being apparently in excellent condition at the present time. 
SPRLCE 
PINE LEAF SCALE ( Chionaspis pinifoliae Fitch) 
L, M< Gates (January 22); There was an extraordinary increase 
