'<7as fo-und to "be abundant on helmock in sedtions of Thereof.., 
Plessis, and Red-TOod, in iJefferson County on August 26. In one 
area of acout 50 acres, the stand "being SO to 90 per cent hem- 
lock, the hemlock trees \7ere stripped vMle the foliage of the 
deciduous gro\7th shov7ed very light feedings. A collection of 
larvae "brought to the laboratory began giving adults of this 
species on September 12. 
S. ?. Felt (September 2h) : Hemlock measuring Trorms were ex- 
tremely abundant near Thoresa, Jefferson County, some 200 acres 
of hemlock being defoliated and presumably there v;as less mater- 
ial injury over a considerable area. Moths 77cre flying in large 
numbers September IS and depositing numerous eggs. 
HXCKCHY 
mCKCElY BAHK BEETLE ( Scolytus qnp-drisninosus Say) 
^Torth ^ . ■,noT\ 
Carolina Monthly Nev/s Letter, Bureau of Entomology, ilo. loO (August ,1927; : 
On July 15, 17, and 18 an outbreak of the hickory bark beetle, 
( Sccoptogaster quadri sT?inosus ) \vas discovered at • Sv;annanoa , N.C. 
It has been in progress since the fall of 1925. '"^^^n severe 
drought 'weakened many hardwoods and conifers. The outbreak v?as 
rapidly increasing in size, and if it had not been checked 7/ould 
undoubtedly have killed all of the hickories in its vicinity 
within the next two or thxee years. 
R. A. St. C-eorge (September 27): On September 9. H. A. St. George 
left Asheville, IT. C. ,for the Eastern Field Station, i!-ast Falls 
Church, Va. On the y^ay across the State of North Carolina many 
dying hickory and oak trees were noted that appeared to be m a 
condition similr-r to those in the ;7estern part around Asheville 
and vicinity. This '.^s particularly so at High Point and Greens- 
boro. At tlje former place tro large ^states were^visited on 
which there were about 50 dead hickory and 25 dead oak trees. 
The hickory trees were heavily infested by broods of the hickory 
bark beetle, Sccoutogast er quadrismnosus Say ;hich were min^^ 
in the larval stage. A few eggs were also fo^jna. J^^g^^S ^^^^ 
the similarity of conditions -Tith those near Asheville, ^^ere 
a thoro;:^h study of the situation was made, it ^o^^JPP^^^^f ^ 
the trees were weakened from the effects of the drouth of 1925 
and were attacked that fall for the first time and have been 
breeding up in numbers since then. They have increased m n-om- 
bers to such an extent that they are now a real menace to^ 
the community. At Greensboro in the Guilford Courthouse ^^ational 
^.ilitary Park, some SO hickory trees were estimated to be miestea 
by the hickory bark beetle. 
LOCUST 
LOCUST LSa? mi^lSR (Chale^us dor sal is Thanb. ) 
llassacbusetts J. V. Schaf fner . Jr. (September 23): . Hood of the gypsy-moth 
