The rosy apple aphid was reported as unusually abundant in central New York, 
southern Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois. The season seems to be one of very 
severe aphid injury, many species having been reported. 
A new species of aphid on birch is occurring in such numbers in the cities 
of southern Connecticut as to be a nuisance. 
Codling moth injury is reported as generally normal over the Eastern States, 
somewhat above normal in the East-Central States, and decidedly below normal in the 
Pacific Northwest. 
The apple tent caterpillar has been unusually numerous in eastern Massachu- 
setts, and moderately abundant in New York State, southern Pennsylvania, Delaware, 
Wisconsin, and Minnesota, especially where orchards have not been well cared for, 
and the forest tent caterpillar is reported as more numerous than usual in eastern 
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. In Oregon the pest occurred 
in such numbers near Corvallis as to occasion newspaper write-ups of trains being 
delayed by hordes of these insects on the tracks. 
The cankerworms attacking both orchards and forest trees are reported as 
abnormally abundant in New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. 
The imbricated snout-beetles are reported as defoliating apple trees in 
Illinois and Nebraska, and the oriental fruit-moth threatens considerable damage 
to late peaches in Virginia. 
The rose chafer is occurring in very unusual numbers throughout the New 
England and Middle Atlantic States as far south as North Carolina and Tennessee, 
and west to Indiana. 
The grape leaf hoppers are appearing in alarming numbers in the grape-growing 
sections of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. 
Last year we reported the occurrence of an Anomala as very destructive to 
sugar cane in Hawaii. This is occurring in a nursery in Connecticut. What is 
supposed to be the larva of this species is reported from the same vicinity, where 
it is infesting lawns. 
Brood XIV of the periodical cicada is reported as appearing in large numbers 
in eastern Massachusetts; central Long Island; Adams County, Pa.; Clarmont County, 
Ohio; and Tennessee, and scatteringly in Maryland, Virginia, and Indiana. Erood 
XXII of this insect appeared in large numbers in the six counties where it W:as 
reported in past years in Mississippi, and also in three additional counties in 
that State. In Louisiana it appeared in Livingston, East Baton Rouge, Ascension, 
East Feliciana, and West Feliciana Parishes. 
OUTSTAHIBISG- ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES FOR CANADA FOR JUNE, 1923. 
A heavy set of fruit, with the possible exception of plums in certain 
sections, is reported from the orchard sections of Canada. Cereal crop prospects 
in the Prairies are excellent. The early part of June was cool and rather wet in 
