-26- 
F0R2ST AND SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
BAG¥ORM ( Thyri dop tery x epj iemer aefo rmi s Haw.) 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (February 25): Evergreen bagworms are 
extremely abundant on arborvitae in southern George County. 
A lady picked over 500 off one tree about 6 feet high and 
6 feet in diameter; not much was left of the foliage. 
BROW- TAIL MOTH ( iTygmia phaeor rhoea Don.) 
New Hampshire P. R. Lowry (February): The winter webs of the brown- 
tail moth are common and generally distributed over south- 
eastern New Hampshire. 
PINE 
Ulw.'^ni-ippi A PINE CONE MOTH .'( Carpocapsa toreuta ' Ororjfce) 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (February 25): Laspey-resia torouta Grote 
(identified by C. Heinrich from adults reared at Lucedale 
last spring) . The larvae are again very abundant in cones 
of pines in cut-over areas, but scarce in virgin timber. 
The larvae have been taken from the cones of Pinus echinata , 
P. taeda , P. -palustris and P. caribea , in southern Mississip- 
pi; especially Pearl River, Perry, Greene, George, and 
Jackson Counties. In cut-over areas of P. palustris where 
seed trees are far between, the cones are heavily infested, 
each cone having from 1 to 10 larvae; in the more heavily 
infested cones practically all seeds are destroyed. The 
larvae live in the pith of the cone and only go out into 
the seed to feed. 
A 
RED- HEADED PINE SAWFLY ( Neodiprion lecontei Fitch) 
Florida •"'.J. R. Watson (February 24): LeConte' s sawfly has been 
reported defoliating pinos. 
A LECA1TIUM (Lec anlu m numismaticum Pet tit & McDaniel) 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (February 25): Lecanlum numismaticum is 
very abundant on young longleaf pine near Leake sville. 
