CTO-LINED CHESTNUT BORER ( Agrilus bilineatus WelD. ) 
^orth R. A. St. George (September 27): Oak trees, consisting mainly of 
Carolina red and black, v/ith some white oaks, v/ere found to be suffering 
from a combination of causes. The principal ones seemed to be 
drouth £ind old age combined vath a heavy attack of Agrilus 
all along the stem. A similar condition of the oaks v/as noted 
some 12 to I5 years ago in the northeast. Many of them died 
follo'.ving a period of drouth; they verc also infested by the 
same insect. Several oaks v/ere noted to be dying in the Guilford 
Courthouse National Militeiry Park also. 
PIKE 
EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT HCTH ( Evetria buoliana Schif f . ) 
Ohio S. W. I,:endenhall (August 27): The European . pine shopt moth is 
reported from Cuyahoga County as doing considerable damage to 
Austrian pine in a nursery. 
SOUTKERN PINE BEETLE ( Pendroctonus frontalis Ziram. ) 
North Carolina Monthly Ne-js Letter, Bureau of Entomology, No. 160 (August, 1927): 
and The southern pine beetle v/hich has been rather inactive since 
South Carolina spring, -.vas discovered in numbers in the last t-,vo or three \7eeks. 
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INTRODUCED PINE SAWLY ( Pi prion simile Hartig) 
Ne\7 York E. P. Felt (September 2U) : The European pine sav/fly has been very 
abundant in Rochester since September 1, the second brood strip- 
ping some of the pines (R. E. Horsey). 
POPLAR 
POPLAR BORER ( Saner da calcarata Say) 
Ohio E. ¥. Mendenhall (September 9)-* I find the Carolina poplars in 
Yello^7 Springs affected by the poplar borer. 
CCTTONrrcOD DAGGM'MOTH ( Acronycta lepugtf^BO Guen. ) 
Nebraska M. H. Sv/enk (^lugust 25-September 25): From Dundy County, during 
the middle of September, a report ^Tas received of severe defolia- 
tion of poplar trees by the cotton'jood dagger moth. 
SPRUCE 
SPRUCE GALL APHID . ( Chermc s abiotis L. ) 
i'ev; York 
E, P. Pelt (September 2k): The spruce gall aphid is abundant on 
^vhite and "blue spruce in Rochester, both in parks and private 
grounds (R. E. Horsey). 
