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about the middle of September, imis is very different from the 
situation in 1^2 j, when the moths appeared in September by nillioi 
and caused serious damage, 
E. .1. McDaniel (October 12): The first specimen of Alabama 
arg il l a cea in lOLehigrn,. so far ar has come to our r.otice, xirs dis- 
covered yesterday. This creature has not yet appeared in numbers, 
only a single specimen having been observed at Erst ^ansing. 
FOBS ST A N D SHADE-THEE I IT SECTS 
::iscELLA: r E:u£ ?ze:,;is 
APffilDAE 
J. C. Evenden (October S) j Throughout the city of Libby the elms, 
imported ashes, and boxelders are being seriously attacked by 
aphid s (species uh^ncvm). This attack is so heavy as to in.- 
e seriously the appearance of the trees and to cause the denth 
of seme fe- individuals ; 
TallTSrliAHiSD TUSSOCK MO r i£ (Hemer.oc wa lsuco sti gma S. & a. ) 
I. I. H. S^-enk (September 25-Cctober 25) : The white*-marked tussock 
moth continued to be conspicuous during the period covered by 
this report. 
COTT027VOOD D&KxSB Ucronvctn ^ or/ui Riley) 
II. H. Snenk (Sept ember 2p«-Gctobcr 25): inuring the latter part of 
September and the first ten days of October the cottonrvood dagger 
moth, Ax;: tela go.^u'Li . appeared in conspicuous numbers on the 
shade trees of Lincoln. 
FIFE IE A? SCALE (Chiona roi s oinifoliae 4 itch) 
h. H. S\.enk (September 25-October 25): Complaints of injury by 
the pine leaf scale on spruce ? nd pine continued to be received 
during the poriod hero reported. 
WOOXiLy ALDER AF3ID ( rroc inhilus tessel'latue Eitcb) 
E. ?. felt (October 2o) : Millions of the young were leaving fiom 
adult masses ml going dom the branches and tree trunks and cov- 
ering the ground for a couple of feet around the base, in '.he 
case of an alder some 30 feet high in highland Fork. Several 
other near-by aide 1 .- trees tier* not infested (?- . E. Horsey) . 
