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number of places. Clusters in stone walls or other protected -olaces close 
to the ground, where they were covered with snow and not exposed to the ex- 
treme cold, showed nearly perfect hatch in many localities. The larvae 
hatching from such protected egg clusters were abundant enough to cause 
severe defoliation in many places. During the summer there was from partial 
to complete defoliation in 492,361 acres of woodland, an increase of nearly 
100,000 acres over 1933, In Maine, Hew Hampshire, and Rhode Island the areas 
of defoliation were considerably more extensive than in 1933. In Massachusett 
there were less extensive areas of defoliation in the eastern and southeastern 
sections but this decrease was offset, to some extent, by more extensive 
defoliation than had ever been recorded for the territory between the middle 
of Worcester County and the Connecticut River, In Vermont and Connecticut 
small areas of defoliation were noted. As the result of the scouting work 
in northern Vermont in the fall and winter of 1933-34, ,15 towns, immediately 
east of the barrier zone which were found uninvested, were taken out of the 
regulated area and added to the zone. These towns extend from the Canadian 
border to, and including, the town of Hancock in Addison County— an area of 
604 square miles. (A. F. Burgess, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
U. S. D. A.) 
BROWH-TAIL MOTH 
In general, there is only a light infestation of the brown-tail moth 
over the greater -nart of the infested territory. Ho cases of severe defolia- 
tion were reported this past summer. This may be due, in part, to the 
enormous number of winter webs that were cut and burned last winter under 
Civil Works authorization and, in part, to v.inter mortality of hibernating 
larvae caused by the extreme cold. Two new infestations outside the regulated 
zone were found in Maine, one at Orono and the other at Old Town. (A. F. 
Burgess, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A. ) . 
SATIH MOTH 
With few exceptions, the infestation of the satin moth appears to be 
low throughout the infested area. In practically all of the area the infes- 
tation was not severe enough to cause any appreciable defoliation, with the 
exception of one town immediately northeast of Boston and another on the 
Massachusetts-Rhode Island line. This insect has been known to occur in the 
State of Washington since 1922, and was found this year in the vicinity of 
Oervais, Oreg. (A. F. Burgess, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
U. S. L. A.) 
ELM LEAF BEETLE 
'The elm leaf beetle was reported to be defoliating elms in Yakima, Wash., 
during the third week in April. Adults began leaving hibernation quarters 
in the Hew England States the first wee": in Fay. Daring the latter part of 
May it was reported as damagi.ig elm9 in southwestern Ohio and in July it 
was reported from the Bluegrass Region of Kontuckj . In May reports of damage 
were received from southwestern Idaho and later in the season the beetle was 
reported as being present throughout the Boise and Payette Valleys, where 
