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Kansas 
New York 
PINE-SHOOT MGTH (Svebria frustrana bushnel li Busck) 
J. W. Mc Col loch (October 17): Larvae of this species were 
received from Tyro, Montgomery County, with the information 
that they were seriously injuring pine trees in that vicinity,, 
A MCTH ( Ocnero stoma piniariella Zeller) 
'7. I. Um Forbes (July 13): Caught in some numbers at trap 
for the past week at Ithaca. Not recorded from United States 
"but specimens were taken "by Prof, J, H. Comstock here in 
•1882. (listed "by Otto Husslin (Leitsaden der Farstinsektenkunde) 
as a leaf-miner on pine and sometimes injurious - J.A.H. ) 
Ohio 
Nebraska 
POPLAR 
OYSTER-SHELL SCALE ( Lepidosaphes ulmi L. ) 
H c W, Mendenhall (October 10): The Carolina poplar trees, 
used as street trees at Sidney, are badly infested with the 
oyster-shell scale and some of them are dying with the pest. 
POPLAR 30R2R (S aperd a calcarata Say) 
M» H« Swenk (September): The usual number of reports of 
injury to elm and poplar trees by this species were received 
during the month. 
Hew York 
WILLOW 
ELM SA7FLY (Cimbe x americana Leach) 
P» J. Chapman (October 10): Specimens received from 
Jamestown, Pound in great numbers on willow. 
INSECTS ATTACKING GREENHOUSE 
AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 
A MYRIOPOD ( Scutigerella immaculata Newp. ) 
Indiana 
Jo J a Davis (October 
Scutigerella jjgn acula 
was first reported to 
greenhouses. It agai 
lettuce houses in the 
severe. The animals 
is used freely and wh 
They gnaw the roots o 
22): The small, white hothouse myriopod 
ta Newp. , determined by Mr* Chamberlin, 
us last January as damaging lettuce in 
n made its appearance in at least two 
State, in one of which the damage is 
occur especially where animal manure 
ere there is an abundance of moisture, 
f the tender seedling lettuce plants 
