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FOREST AND SHADE -TREE INSECTS 
CANKER YvORMS (Geometridae ) 
Kansas, H. R. Bryson (February 23): Alsophila pometaria Karr. end Faleacrita 
vernata Peck are very abundant. Emergence began the first week in January 
ana large numbers had been caught on the bands by February 5« 
GYPSY I DTK ( Porthetria dispar L.) 
Vermont, H. L. Bailey (February 28): we have found an unusually heavy gypsy 
moth infestation in the town of Newbury in Grange County, About 2,^00 
egg masses were taken in an area about three- fourths of a mile square. 
There was evidently a very heavy hatch of the caterpillars last spring 
notwithstanding the extreme cold of the preceding winter. This is out- 
side the area in Vermont which may be considered as generally infested, 
Pennsylvania, A. F. Burgess (January 22): Intensive scouting work was done 
in the vicinity of an assembling cage in Tobyhanna Township. in Monroe County, 
where a male moth was taken last summer. As a result, 477 acres of wood- 
land and one-fourth mile of open country along roadsides were examined; and 
two additional infestations were found, one in Bear Creek Township, Luzerne 
County, the other in Tobyhanna Township. 
BEECH 
BEECH SCALE ( Cryptococcu s fagi Beer.) 
New York, M. w', Blackman (January 23): Infestations of the beech scale here 
been found in Westchester County at Scarsdale, and immediate vicinity. On 
December 11 and 12, R. C. Brown and C. L. Griswold, of the Melrose High- 
lands laboratory, made a rough survey, examining beech trees along the prin- 
cipal parkways, Light infestations were found at six places within a 
radius of 6 miles from Scarsdale, This is the first time the scale has 
been reported from New York State, 
ELM 
EUROPEAN ELM SCALE ( Gossyparia spuria Mod.) 
Idaho* C, Vakeland (February 20); The European elm scale, which has become 
established in Moscow during the last few years, increased very rapidly 
last year following the mild winter of 1933~34» We have been making ex- 
aminations recently to determine the effect of cold weather on this insect 
in this vicinity and iind that the average percentage of survival is 0,1b, 
All the living scales are under old scale bodies, pieces of bark, and in 
other protected places. The lowest temperature was -1<3° F, 
LkRCK 
LaRCH CASE BEARER ( Coleophor a laricella Kbn,) 
New York, R, E. Horsey (February 23): Caterpillars, alive in their cases, 
