may result in the death of many of thorn. All sizes of trees from 
seedlings 1 foot high to nature trees are attacked. The feeding 
is ertrcmely local. On the plantations of the Great Southern 
Lumber Company the worst injury appeared to "be on the slightly 
higher ground in an association where scrub oak occurs. This 
soil is much lighter and sandier than in the near-by lower ground 
.and it is very probable that these larvae feed on the roots of 
some plant in this association . The defoliated groups range 
from a few trees to patches several acres in extent. The 
limits are well demarcated and adjacent to these severely brown- 
ed patches perfectly green timber occurs. The needles a.re gnaw- 
ed bade from the tip but may be bitten off near the ba.se. In 
casas of severe defoliation all the needles are removed or at 
least killed do-m to the leaf sheaths. 
Two days later, going west from Bogalusa on the Gulf Coast lino, 
similar injury was observed a.t various points along the right of 
way. It was particularly noticeable between .Eunice and Kinder, 
la. At these points some trees are actually dead though this 
may be the result of the severe drought of last summer and fall. 
However, some of the trees have only recently died. Longleaf 
and slash pines are affected at this locality. 
S ASSAFRAS 
A WEEVIL ( Prionomerus calceatus Say) 
New York M. D. Leonard (July 7): Specimens received from Mineola. 
SPRUCE 
SPHUCE mDTiOmi ( Barmoloea fumiferana Clem. ) 
Maine E. B. Peirson (June 18): Attacking fir in Somerset County. 
Twenty-five per C3nt defoliated. The area infested is 75 acres. 
SFHTJCE GALL APHID (Chermes abietis L. ) 
H. B. Peirson (July 13): Ecd spruce are 30 per cent defoliated 
by the spruce gall louse. The trees all over Bustins Island 
Cumberland County, look brown: on some it is almost impossible 
to find a green terminal. The woods are in the same condition 
as the trees in the open. It looks very serious. 
VTA LIKED 
WALBUT CATERPILLAR ( Da tana i nteP-er rima G. & P.. ) 
J. J. Davis (September 24): The walnut latana has been reported 
irom many sections of central Indiana as defoliating walnut trees. 
Mississippi h * Harned (September 2 ): . v; e have just received specimens of 
that S hl^ terpillar from our inspector at Moss Point, vh statos 
State neV ° r DCf ° rc Geen til0G G0 bnd in that s ^tion of the 
Maine 
Indiana 
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