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MAPLS 
JAPANESE MAPLS SCALE ( Leucaspis japonica Ckll.) 
Connecticut. 17. S. Britton (July 22): A section of trunk of a young Norway maple 
tree, 3 to 4 inches in diameter, was thoroughly coated with L. japonica . A 
larger tree had a branch infested. Both were in the western part of New Haven. 
COTTONY MAPLS SCALE ( Pulvinari a vitis L.) 
Ohio. E. 17. Mende'nhall (July 3): The cottony maple scale is very had in several 
localities where soft maples are planted for shade in the central part of the 
State. Not much effort is made" to control the scale. 
Minnesota. A. G. Suggles (July 15): This scale is very had around lake shores in 
Becker and Ott.ertail Counties on hasswoods. 
POPLAR 
A HAWK MOTH ( Pachy sphinx roodesta Harr.) 
Nebraska. R. Roberts (June 20 to July 20): A Deuel County correspondent reported 
the big poplar sphinx P. modesta as attacking cottonwoods. 
POPLAR LEAP-STEM GALL ( Pemphigus p opul i t r ans ve r sus Riley) 
Nebraska. R. Roberts (June 20 to July 20): Cottonwood trees in Keith Comity were 
reported infested with the poplar leaf-otem gall the first week of July. 
• PINS 
NANTUCKET PINS SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionia frustrana Corns t.) 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (July 10): This pine tip borer is attacking pines at 
Stevenson. 
J. A. Kyslop (July 10): About 10 per cent of the shoots of about 30 plants, 
Pinus mug bu s , on my farm at Avar, el are browned by this shoot moth. (Det. 
C. Heinrich.) 
A TUSSOCK MOTH ( Olene leucophaea S. and A.) 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (June 30): This moth has been reported doing serious 
injury over a lar;e area of jack pine in tne vicinity of Spooner, Washburn 
County. 
PALES WEEVIL ( Hyiobius pales Boh.) 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (July 24): Nursery inspectors ar.d blister-rust foremen 
report more injury from pales weevil than usual, on Scotch pine in particular, 
but also on white pine and Mugho pine. 
PINE BARK APHID ( Pineus strobi Ktg.) 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles (July 15): The pine bark aphid has been more than usually 
abundant . 
