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Cowaa C. N, Ainslie (October 11)* ''There has been a marked increase in the 
numbers of the boxelder tug during the past year and at this date the 
adults are swarming everywhere . Bssides the damage they may do to 
trees they are a great nuisance, invading houses and colonizing in 
porches." 
CAT ALVA 
A MEALYBUG ( P seud oco ecus comstocki Kuw.) 
i'sw York E. P<> Felt (September 25). "Specimens just at hand indicate an 
unusual abundance of what is presumably the Japanese mealybug on 
catalpa, at North Pel ham. Westchester County, the crevices of the 
bark and holes in the trees leing more or less filled with a white, 
mealy material containing immense numbers of the minute, yellowish 
orange larvae." 
KLM ■' 
ELM LSAF-DESTLE (G ale run e,l.la lute o la M uell.) 
New Jersey C. E. Coble (July 25). "This insect was found attacking olm at East 
Orange.' 1 (August 7). ''Elm itpee found to be attacked by this insect 
at Mont clair." 
ELM BORER ( Saperd a trident at a Oliv.) 
Nebraska M, H, Swenk (October l) . "Serious injury to elms and poplars by 
the elm borer continued through the month." 
LARCH 
LARCH CASE-BEARER ( Coleoshora laricella Huebn.) 
aine H„ B. Pierson (August). "Infestation by the larch case-bearer is 
assuming epidemic form. Large areas of larch appeared as if struck 
by fire early in the seaeon." 
MAPLE 
A LEPIDOFTERON (P arac l omensia aoerif olie lla Fitch) 
New York E. P* Felt (September 23). "This insect has been locally abundant 
and somewhat injurious to sugar maples in both St . Lawrence and Warren 
Counties ." 
WOOLLY MAPLE-LEAF SCALE ( Phenacoccus acericola King) 
Connecticut W. E. Britton (October 24) . "This insect is attacking sugar maples 
about Bristol, New London, Stratford, Glastonbury, and New Haven." 
COTTONY MAPLE SCALE ( Pulvinaria vitis L.) 
rtew Jersey C, E. Cobb (June 25). "This scale is attacking maples at Maplewood." 
(June 23). "It is also attacking maples at Westfield." 
