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P I NE NEEDLE SCALE ( Chionasp is pinifoliae Fitch) 
Ohio. E. W, Menclenhall (August 2"l)i Quite bad .-on "pine tree stock in a 
nursery at Lancaster. . , 
POPLAR 
COTTONWOOD BORER ( Plectrodera scalator P.) 
Nebraska. M. H. Svrenk (August 20) : A specimen of the Cottonwood "borer was 
mailed in from Franklin County on July 23* A report sent in from Merrick 
County on July £4 indicated that the "borer was killing cottonwood trees 
in that locality. 
SPRUCE ~ 
EUROPEAN SPRUCE SAWFLY ( Piprion polytomum Htg.) 
Maine. H. J. Mac Aloney (July): The survey now "being conducted in northern 
Maine has revealed areas of heavy, defoliation covering in the aggregate 
thousands of acres. The infestations found thus : far are located along 
the Allagash and St. Johns Rivers. On the Allagash trees have died from 
last year's defoliation. The infestation in certain areas is fully, as . 
heavy as at Parke Reserve, Karaouraska County, ; Quebec, Canada. Sample 
collections of cocoons in the duff have shown that 20 living cocoons 
per square foot occur in certain areas. 
WILLOW . 
POPLAR AND WILLOW BORER ( Crypto rhynchus - lapathi L.) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (August 23): Mottled poplar and willow borer was damaging 
willow at Muncie according, to a- report received August 5« 
Special note — A native American plant, Salvia re flexa , belonging to the mint 
family, has become a noxious weed in Australia. It would be of considerable 
interest if entomologists within the range of this plant in the Great Plains 
and Rocky Mountain States would report on all insects that have been re- 
corded from this plant. 
