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Indiana 
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in fast-growing trees. Some tree.g have been killed and many- 
are dying. 
MAPLE BLADDER GALL ( Phyllocoutes quadripes Shim.) 
E. P. Felt (May 24): Extremely numerous on a red maple at 
Newburgh, the infested leaves being -practical ly covered with 
gal 1 s . 
COTTONY MAPLE SCALE (Pulvinaria vitis L.) 
J. J. Davis (May 25): The cottony maple scale is abundant 
on soft manle at Lizton and Portland. 
T. H. Parks (May 24): Very serious on soft maples in 
western Ohio. 
District 
of 
Columbia 
OAK 
AN APHID ( Myzocallis discolor Monell) 
J. A. Hyslop (May 20): Unusually abundant on oak leaves 
on Museum grounds — some coccinellid larvae -seen among them. 
Maine 
Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania 
Massachusetts 
PINE 
WHITE- PINE WEEVIL ( Pissodes strobi Peck) 
H. B. Peirson (May): The first white pine weevil adults ap- 
peared April 20 at Parsonfield. Abundant on Scotch pine in 
Belfast and New Portland. 
J, N, Knull (May 4): The first adults were observed on May 
4, crawling up the trunks of white pines in the vicinity of 
Cross Porks. 
BARK BEETLES (Coleoptera) 
J. N. Knull (May 13): Many -nines ( Pinus banksiana ) in a 
15-year-old plantation at Pond Bank, Franklin County, were 
killed by Ips calligraphus Germ., I. gr andicollis Eich., J_. 
avul sus Eich., I. pini Say. The trees were infested during 
1931 and their vitality was evidently lowered by the 1930-31 
drought . 
NANTUCKET PINE SHOOT MOTH (Hhyacionia frustrana Comst.) 
E. P. Felt (May 24): The Nantucket pine moth is locally 
very abundant on hard pines on Nantucket Island, adults be- 
ginning to issue the middle of May. 
