determined bat it is one of our con^on defoliators. Some oak 
trees are almost completely stripped, 
TTO-LIEED CHESTNUT BORER ( Agrilus bilineatus Vfeb.) 
SOUTHERN F. C. Craighead (Septemb r 21): Throughout the southern Appalachians 
APPALACHIANS Agrilu s bilineatus is quite abundant. Many oaks are dying which 
are thoroughly attacked by this insect hut undoubtedly the pre- 
disposing factor is the extreme drought of the past season (1925)# 
Many hardwoods died last fall without any insect attack and many 
of those that were just able to pull through are the ones which 
are nor being killed by Agrilus. 
PINE 
MEALY FLATA ( Or men is pruinosa Say) 
Florida M« D, Leonard (September 15) • A moderate infestation on a consider- 
able planting of Australian pines in the nursery at Venice. 
PALES wEEVIL ( Hylobius p ales 3ph.) 
New York E. P. Felt (September 2k): The pales we evil has been definitely 
associated with serious injury to 15-year-old Scotch pines 
ranging in size from 1-g- to 5 inches in diameter. An extensive 
planting near a strip of old pines showed IOC per cent infestation 
and some 25 per cent dying, the grubs -rPrking in the cambium just 
beloT7 the surface of the soil and girdling the trees, the adjacent 
earth being infiltrated with pitch-, A species of Pissodcs, 
possibly P. approximatus Hopk, ,-as also associated in this work 
though apparently much less abundant. 
A BARK BEETLE ( Dendroctonus sp. ) 
South J. 0. Pepper (August 28): A small area of pine ..trees in Columbia 
Carolina and Spartanburg has been attacked by a species of bark beetle, 
WALNUT 
ffALNUT CADERPILLAR (D- tana ir.te^errima G. & R. ) 
Indiana 3er.net A. Porter (September 25): Unusually abundant. Many trees 
completely defoliated at Vine ernes. 
EUROPEAN '.TLLO'.r BF7;TJX ( Plag iodera versicolora Laich) 
New York E. P.. Pelt (September 2k): The European willow leaf beetle has 
extended its range northward in the Hudson River Valley very 
greatly, 4t having oeen recorded for the first time from Araenia, 
t Chatham, Nassau, and Albany. It is probable that this very 
considerable northward extension of some 100 miles resulted from 
flight and wind drift. 
Pennsylvania A, B, Chnrcplain (September 1): Ornamental vlllows along the river 
