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P.Q R S^S.vT.-- A w I) S^H .1 D IS "-'^'H Z: Z I IT SECTS 
r'/i-.= r;. ' ■ -A SA^m.!- ( -Mnrion T^olytontra Htg:);..' " ' 
'H. • E.- Pcirson (''arch 25): Avhitc s-^rucc sarfly hr^s 'been 
noted :' at ^rBar. Harhor. 'Mis -1-s 'the first roTiorted occurrence 
in -the United States of this serious 2>arQ-De,xi,.pegt^ 
SPRING- CAlIKniR '.IOR: ( Paleacrita yemata Pech) 
H... 2. Jacq^oes ('''arch 28): Snring canhcr v.orns. arc no'^v in „ 
.-tll^-ht. ' ■ . ]■".■' 
■ ■. ,H. E. Bryson ('larch 25): There have "been reports that fe- 
males ta'^en fron the crevices , of . the b^irh of cln tree fol- 
il^QWingithe severe cold vvcath^er of Mojch 5 to 15 v. ere not 
killed by a te-^neroture of -2°F. 
; L. Hase-nan (March 22): I'alc moths vrc re on. the v~ing the last 
days -in February and the erxly loart of March in east-central 
end southeastern I'isso^ori. 
A HORICT MOTH ( Alcathoe a-^iiormis Clerch) 
G, P. liigelhardt (Mnrch 10): The s^^ocics hos become v.cll 
■ est.abli shed in Broolil^/n and outlying districts on Long Islond, 
in He'r YorV City, the Bronx, 'Testchester County, Statcn Is- 
Irnd, Hobohcn, Jersey City, and the H^.chensach meadov.'s re- 
gion. In Brooklyn .^nd locplly on Long Islp.hd the insect is 
o,ssum.in,g economic im--iortance. Its ottacks are limited to the 
base of trees ond lateral surface roots. Carolino. nonlars 
are the chief sufferers, nextsilver nonlor, and Po">ul'u.s bal- 
s.^m.i f er,-^. .-^nd viHo'-is the lerst. ITrom one Carolina poplar at 
Baldvin, L. I., I extro.ctcd j^ver fifty -^uroc. Yet the s-necies 
is -^oorly re-^rcsented in "''.ost general collections of Lepidop- 
tera. It is my o'-^inion that it as yet has not snrcad very 
far fro-^ its -^oi:it of intriduction at or necj:^ Nev.' York City; 
an area of 100 '.n.les nrobably covers its'-^Tcsent r.?nge. 
dates of :-"er.-:c:ice rongc fro". May 16 to June 21. 
.', • . ■ B.1G'.T0RI ( Thyri do-t eryx e-^h en era of o ipl s Hav-' . ) 
■ J. S. Housor (March 11): -Heavy ' drn-gc cansed last ye.ar in 
■the Mt, Airy J'^rcst of Cincinnati bids fair to be less ^^ro- 
nouiiced in 1932 ov.inr to the fact that -narasites destroyed 
IrjTge numbers of the insects last f-:.!!. A heavy nerqejitagc 
of the bags arc cnpty 'instead n'f containing eggs. ^ ■'' •-•••> . 
SUROFHiN jpRUIT L3CAi:ilP'' ( Lecari-jr c-rni Bouchc) 
H. L. Bailey (March 22): Mrny you:ig lec^riium scale insects, 
ai'^arently alive, have been found on branches of elm ond ash 
in '^lont-^elier There infestation '<:c.q henvy last year. 
