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BOXELDER BUG ( Leptocoris trivittatus Say) 
Oregon Don C. Mote (February 20): Scullen reports the boxelder bug common 
and active, crawling on summer days. One day last week a half cup 
of these bugs was, collected in fifteen minutes . 
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DEODAR WEEVIL ( Pissodes deodarae Ilopk. ) 
Mississippi R. W. Harried (January 17): Insects belonging to the genus Diss odes , 
and probably to the species deodarae , were found causing serious in- 
jury to Gedrus dcodara p lants at Brookhaven during the latter part 
of December. 
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CECROPIAMOIH ( Samia cecropia L. ) 
Ohio E. ",". Mendenhall (March I): I find cecropia-moth cocoons quite plen- 
tiful on the maple trees in parks and along the streets in Columbus 
and other towns and cities in southwestern Ohio. 
WALNUT SCALE ( Aspidiotus juglans-regiae Comst.) 
Ohio E. \7. Mendenhall (January 11): I found the soft maple trees in 
Celina, Mercer County, badly infested with the walnut scale. 
GOLDEN" O.Ji SCALE (/ ..sterolecanium variolosum Ratz. ) 
New Zealand Monthly Letter, Bur. Ent.»No. 165, (January, 1928): Two shipments 
of the golden oak scale, parasitised by what appears to be Kabrolepis 
dalmanni Westw.*» nave recently been sent from Melrose to Dr. 3. J. 
Tillyard, of New Zealand, where this scale is causing great damage 
to the trees. 
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MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE (Panel roc tonus mohticolae Hopk. ) 
Montana Official Record, Vol. 7, No. 7, (February 15): The attention of the 
Bureau of Entomology was called to an epidemic in 1909, 'when the 
mountain pine beetle was killing lodgepole pine m the Flathead 
National Forests , in Montana near the Canadian border. This infesta- 
tion has spread southward through the Missoula and Bitter_'Oot NatiO] 
Rational Forest; for the most part on the west side of the Continent 1 
Divide. In reaching a low point on the Continental Divide between 
the Bitterroot n the Beaverhead Forests, the beetles started to 
