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FOREST TEHT CATERPILLAR ( Ualacosoma lis stria Eubn.) 
Massachusetts J. V. Schaffner Jr. (June 17)- Dommon this year in oak woodlands 
through eastern Massachusetts. Ho serious outbreaks reported. 
HICKORY APHID ( Longi stigma caryae Harr . ) 
South J. 0. Pepper (June*5): Giant hickory aphids are still present in 
•Carolina large numbers on water oak in the Piedmont section. 
A LEAF LSI ITER (Species undet.) 
South J. 0. Pepper (June l): Unite oak leaves infested ~oy a small moth 
Carolina leaf-miner (species undetermined) have been received from Saluda 
County end reported as seriously injuring the foliage on a large 
white oak. 
P. C. Craighead (June Lo): The note on Dendroctonus valens in 
the June 1 issue of the Bulletin, p. 125 from the flonthly Letter 
of the Bureau of Entomology, Ho. 15S, April, 1927, should have 
been under Dendroctonus f rontalis Zimm. 
S A'TFLY (T e nt hr e di ni dae ) 
Louisiana (Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, Ho. 157. May, 19 2 7) : 
C. '". Bilbray, of the Louisiana Department of Conservation, sta- 
tioned at Many, reported an extensive outbreak of sawfly larvae 
on shortleaf pine this year. The larvae appeared in Sabine and 
Vernon Parishes about April 28, attacking more than \Q.OO'^ acres 
of young growth from 3 to 5 feet high. It -as stated that the 
full-grown larvae are plentiful at this time, and suggestions 
'-ere made for their control. These larvae were first reported 
as defoliating pines in June, 1926. Ik. Bilbray also reported . 
the browning of foliage of apparently thrifty young pine trees by 
lepidopterous needle miners, extending over the same areas in 
these two parishes. 
SPRUCE S AMPLY ( Heodi prior abietis Harr.; 
Massachusetts J. V. Schaffner Jr. (June 17): Larvae of a sawfly are unusually 
common on Pixnis ri.rida (pitch pine) throughout eastern Mass.. 
Many reports of its occurrence have been received the pas;- fe 
days. One collector found it damaging Pirns resmosa (red pine). 
Mew York I. P. Felt (June 2U) : Injury by this insect to scrub wine was re- 
