SU GAR cans 
SUGAR CME BORER (Dlat raea saccharalis Fab .) 
Louisiana T* E« Holloway and W. E. Haley (October 25): Our field 
examinations, which so far cover only a small portion of the 
sugar parishes, indicate that the "borer damage started late, 
after the cold winter, and did not reach its usual proportions* 
In fact, on the more northern plantations, the damage is 
often very low, A comparatively high infestation has been 
traced to the planting of very badly bored seed cane. 
LESSER CORN STALK-BORER (Elasm opalwas lignosellus Zell.) 
Porto Rico A* H* Rosenfeld (September 29): Crop damaged 1 per cent. The 
Assistant Entomologist of the Insular Experiment Station 
mentioned this damage to me early in the month, v;hich we both 
thought was being caused by a crambid. He has just returned 
from another trip to Villalba and tells me that the insect 
is Blasmopalpus li gnosellus . There is no recent reference to 
this species in Porto Rico, Wolcott in his check list (Journal 
P. R. Dept, Agr. VII-1, p. 199) mentioning it as having been 
reported a generation or more ago by Moschler and Gundlach. 
FOREST AND SHADE-TREEIN SECTS 
GENERAL FEEDERS 
GIPSY MOTH ( Fort hetria d ispar Ly ) 
GENERAL John N. Summers (September 1,1923-Sept ember J.92U): There was a 
general infestation over all of the older infested territory 
in New England* YThile the major portion of it was not infested 
sufficiently to cause much defoliation, there were a few sections 
which had localized heavy infestations. A number of towns in 
Maine extending westward from Sebago Lake and a few in the same 
general section over the New Hampshire line, had numerous 
small areas ranging from a few trees to several acres where the 
defoliation by gipsy moth larvae was quite pronounced. Towns 
immediately around Lake Winnepesaukee in New Hampshire to the 
north and west had small areas of heavy defoliation^, 
In Massachusetts a few towns in the vicinity of Taunton and a 
few in the vicinity of Buzzard's Bay had areas of greater or 
less extent which were defoliated. 
In New Jersey the infested area was reduced considerably* Both 
the number of colonies and the number of egg clusters found were 
less than the year before,, 
Since the larval season one colony of quite a number of egg'. 
clusters Was 'located by C&naii&a officials at Lacolle, Quebec, a 
short distance over the line from Al burgh, Vermont. 
Federal control work was confined to the "barrier 2 on© 'J in 
western New England and eastern New York. All infestations where 
any egg clusters w ere found ^ere treated and sprayed thoroughly 
together with a protective area around each. 
The area quarantined for this insect has been extended considerably, 
