-457- 
and Galveston Counties .on September 10. 
California. K. A. Salman (September 20): Many webs on black walnut shade 
trees growing along -the roadside in Colusa and Princeton, Colusa County, 
north-central California. Trees damaged by defoliation. 
SOUTHERN PINE SAWYER ( Monochamus titillator F. ) 
West Virginia. F. W. Craig (September 28): Attacking hemlocks in a nursery 
at Huntington. (Det. by A. G. Boving. ) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell. (October 26): Reports continuing to come in from 
Griffin and McDonough of injury to deodar cedar due, in part at least, 
to this species. 
WALKINGSTICKS (Phasmidae) 
Virginia. R. G. Pierce (October 15): There was an epidemic of walkingsticks , 
which seemed to have defoliated trees on about 100 acres on Gimlet Ridge, 
Warren County, between Browntown and Bentonville. There was also a 
severe defoliation on Pickrel Ridge, Rappahannock County. The trees most 
heevily defoliated were oak, hickory, and locust. 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles (October 18):. On a farm -in Dakota County millions 
of walkingsticks were denuding young oak, wild cherry, and hazelnut. They 
were also eating quackgrass. 
BEECH 
BEECH SCALE ( Cryptococcus fagi Baer. ) 
New York. E. P. Felt (October 23): Found generally present, and on some 
trees at New Rochelle it was abundant. 
BIRCH 
BIRCH LEAF-MINER SAWFLY ( Phyllotoma nemo rata Fall. ) 
Maine. H. B. Peirson (October 19): Noticeably heavy infestations occurred 
this year, causing foliage to be well browned and mined at Knox, south- 
centml Maine,, and in the Dead River area, in western Maine. 
BRONZED BIRCH BORER ( Agrilus anxius Gory ) 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (October 2): In Springfield and Dayton the injury to 
birch trees is severe. 
CATALPA 
CATALPA SPHINX ( Ceratomia catalpae Bdv. ) 
South Carolina. F. Sherman and W. C. Nettles (October 16): Occasional trees 
