3/6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., '17 



Grasshoppers in California, western Montana (the Rocky Mountain 

 migratory locust), Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Iowa, southern 

 Indiana, Michigan, the District of Columbia, New York, Vermont and 

 C. (niiiccticut; , 



Hessian fly in eastern Kansas; 



chinch bug in Oklahoma and southwestern Illinois; 



wircworms (Melanotus larvae) in Montana, Idaho and eastern Ne- 

 braska; 



aphids on barley in southern Arizona, on melons in Nebraska and 

 the Gulf region from Florida to Texas, on conifers in Colorado, on 

 potatoes and tomatoes in Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 

 Virginia and Massachusetts, on cabbage in Nebraska, Missouri, New 

 Jersey and Iowa and aphids generally in gardens in cities of Indiana 

 planted on ground which has not been in cultivation for a number of 

 years ; 



plum curculio in northeastern Ohio and New Jersey (but not in 

 West Virginia or Georgia) ; 



the sheep bot in Mississippi; 



the mole-cricket in coastal South Carolina; 



red spider in North Carolina on cotton, in Texas on beans and 

 alfalfa; 



cut worms in Indiana; 



southern corn root-worm beetle (Diabrotica 12-punctata) in western 

 Illinois; 



lesser corn stalk borer (Elasmopalpus lignosellus) in the Gulf 

 States, particularly Mississippi; 



boll weevil in Florida, southern and central Texas and Arkansas; 



sod web-worms (Crambus species) in northern Illinois; 



fall web worms (Hyphantria spp.) in Louisiana, Mississippi and 

 New York; 



white-marked tussock moth in eastern Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, 

 Indiana, Connecticut and many other States; other foliage insects are 

 also noted; 



seed corn maggot (Phorbia fusciccps) in New York: 



Colorado potato beetle in Virginia, Wisconsin, Arizona and Mis- 

 souri, although reported as not very destructive elsewhere. 



"The area infested by the alfalfa weevil is producing the only good 

 first crop of alfalfa seen there in five years." 



The "surplus of arsenate of lead and Paris green in the country 

 is very low;" arsenate of lime is being substituted for arsenate of lead 

 in Nova Scotia, arsenite of zinc for Paris green in Montana, at a 

 large saving. 



Decrease in the natural insect enemies of coniferous bark beetles 



