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GIAHT APHID (Log^gisJiigma caryae Harr.) 
Massachusetts E. P, Felt (October 23): The large hickory aphid was re- 
ported from Pittsfield. It occasionally becomes extremely 
abundant on the branches of hickory, beech, and oriental plane, 
OBSCURE SCALE ( Chrysoirvohalus ob scurus Coir.st.) 
Mississippi C. Lyle and assistants (October): The obscure scale is 
present on oak trees in Corinth in large numbers and has done 
serious damage to some of the trees, causing the limbs to die 
and weakening the whole tree. 
PUIS 
PIHE TUBE MOTH (Eulia pinatubana Kearf.) 
Maine H. I, Peirson (October 24): The pine tube builder was very 
prevalent throughout the vicinity of Augusta. About 90 per 
cent of the larvae have left the tubes. 
Hew Jersey E. P. Pelt (October 23): The pine tub-e builder was reported 
as injurious to pine at Tenafly. It is a common species 
locally and occasionally abundant upon individual trees or 
groups of trees. 
PIHS TJE3TTORM ( Tctralopha ir.elanogrgcEr.os Zell.) 
Vermont H. L. Bailey (October 27): The pine webworm. was found in 
considerable numbers on Scotch pine plantations at Essex. 
SOUTHERN PI HE BEETLE ( Per, droc tonus frontalis Zimm.) 
Horth Carolina R. A. St. George (October 3): Ho southern pine beetle out- 
breaks were noted or reported curing the summer in the South- 
eastern States except in the Bent Creek and Billy Moores 
Creek areas of the Pisgah National Eorest located near Asheville, 
T7HITE-PIHS TCEEVIL ( Pissodes strobi Peck) 
Maine H. B. Peirson (October 24): A moderate infestation in Scotch 
pine of the "white pine weevil has been observed at Oquossuc. 
A BARK BEETLE (l^s calligraTohus Germ.) 
Mississippi C. Lyle (October 22): Bark beetles were reported abundant 
in a young pine tree at Erookhaven on October 15. 
