California. H. £• Wallace (February): Early in February there was an influx 
of beet leafhoppers into the beets around King City. The writer visited 
the erea on February 12 end 13 and ma.de several counts in the field. The 
average population found, considering all counts, was 9 bugs per Idd square 
feet of row of unthinned beets, a population sufficiently large to indicate 
potential damage on unthinned beets on the 1,600 acres in the district. 
The majority were females of the overwintering generation. 
FOREST AND SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
CANKER WORMS ( Geometridae ) 
Connecticut. E. P. Felt (March 25): Fall canker worms ( Alsophila rometcr ia 
Harr.) are locally abundant, though mostly in areas adjacent to the sec- 
tions where there was extensive defoliation last year. A number of the 
females did not appear until spring and on March 24 they were observed 
laying eggs. The spring canker worm ( Paleacrit a vernata Peck) occurs 
locally but is not so common as the fall c anker worm. 
W. E. Eritton (March 23): Eggs of the fall canker worm are very 
abundant in the vicinity of New Haven ana have been received from Bethany, 
Bridgeport, Groton, and Woodbridge. There may be serious defoliation in 
May. 
New Jersey. T. J. Headlee (March 23); Both species or canker worm are in- 
creasing* This morning I found a female spring canker worm laying eggs. 
Illinois. w# P. Flint (March 20): Canker worm moths were flying in rather 
large numbers on the night of February 27 and again on the night of 
March 19, 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 25): Mais moths or the spring ranker worm have 
appeared at Columbia now and then on warm nights since sometime in Janu. :\ . 
The moths are still abundant. 
A, F. Satterthwait (February 25): The spring canker worm is now in 
flight at Webster Groves. One was observed on February 1^. By February 
21 many were in flight. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 22): Canker worms are abundant in a number of 
localities. Several thousand trees were banded and counts repealed from 
400 to GOO moths on representative bands. The majority of the moths are 
out, but the bands still catch a few late stragglers. 
'FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR ( Malacosoma disstria Hbn.) 
Colorado. G. M. List (March 19 ) : Eggs are much less numerous in northern 
Colorado cities than they have been for two seasons. Little injury is 
expected this year. 
