58 PAPERS ON CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS. 
It is essentially a lowland form, as its food plants clearly indicate, 
and will therefore especially interest the farmer whose fields are of 
bottom, swamp, or other low-lying lands. 
The following are the localities from which the species has been 
received: 
Arizona: Tucson (Wickham), near Duncan (Cockerell). Arkansas: Helena (L. E. 
Howard). Florida: McLelian (W. H. Gill), Grant (Robt. T. Smith). Georgia: 
Jefferson County (R. J. Redding), Statesboro (R. I. Smith). illinois: From Pekin 
to Cairo, Savanna, Urbana, Metropolis (Forbes), Warsaw (Dr. Shafer), Rock Island 
(Det. Chittenden). Indiana: Lake, Vigo, Posey, Perry, Putnam, and Blackford 
counties (W. S. Blatchley). Kansas: Great Bend, Arkansas City (T. H. Parks), 
Wellington (Kelly and Parks), Douglas County (Det. Chittenden). Kentucky: Oppo- 
site Cairo, Ill. (Forbes). Louisiana; New Orleans (H. Soltau). Maryland: Glen Echo 
(Det. Chittenden). Mississippi: Gulf View (Det. Chittenden). Missouri: Georgia 
(Chas. B. Guinn), Atoka (Det. Chittenden). Mew Mexico: Cliff (T. J. Clark), Silver 
City (Jas. K. Metcalfe). North Carolina: Edenton (J. W. Mason), Elizabeth City 
(J. P. Overman), Hertford (W. T. Shannonhouse, Mrs. 8. D. Jordan), Pineview (W. 
Barnett), Pyreway (Maj. Gore), Bayboro, Chapel Hill (J. A. Holmes), Washington 
(S. L. Willard), Mount Olive (B. A. Hallett), Kehukee (Edw. Markham), West Raleigh, 
Proctorville, Braswell (R. I. Smith), and Hyde, Pamlico, Beaufort, and Tyrrell 
counties; Swindell (G. L. Swindell), Biaden, Cumberland, Duplin, Moore, and Bruns- 
wick counties (Franklin Sherman). Ohio: Cincinnati and vicinity (Chas. Dury). 
Oklahoma: Stillwater (A. N. Caudell, C. E. Sanborn), Duncan, Anadarko, Pocasset, 
Hastings, Cement, Rush Springs, and Chickasha (A. L. Lovett), Duncan, Chickasha 
(T. D. Urbahns), Marlow (J. F. Davidson), Oklahoma City (T. H. Parks). South 
Carolina: Marion (E. T. Stackhouse), Pittsfield (Forbes and Hart), Rimini (C. R. F. 
Baker). Tennessee: Appleton (P. Cox, Geo. G. Ainslie), Memphis (H. Soltau). 
Texas: Whitesboro (E. O. G. Kelly), Wallisville (W. L. McAtee), Alligator Head 
(J. D. Mitchell). Virginia: Norfolk (Popenoe), Arlington (I. B. Hopkins). Mexico: 
(Prof. Herrera). 
FOOD PLANTS. 
Dr. Forbes gives Cyperus sirigosus as the natural food plant, im 
the roots of which it develops in Illinois. Mr. T. D. Urbahns found 
it developing in Tripsacum dactyloides at Plano, Tex., in July, 1909. 
At Appleton, Tenn., July 14, 1911, Mr. Geo. G. Ainslie found the 
infested fields in part grown up with weeds and a swamp Carex (C. 
vulpinoidea), but he was unable to find the beetle actually develop- 
ing therein. (See Pl. IX, figs. 1,2.) Mr. A. N. Caudell reported the 
larvee injuring the roots of yellow nut grass (Cyperus esculentus) at 
Stillwater, Okla., in 1895. Dr. Chittenden reared the adult from a 
pupa found in the roots of Panicum capillare growing in low bottom 
lands along the canal near Glen Echo, Md., in August, 1897. Mr. 
I. J. Condit found it breeding in Frank’s sedge (Carex frankii) grow- 
ing on the department farm at Arlington, Va. In Florida the insect 
develops from egg to adult in Cyperus rotundatus, while farther north, 
in the Carolinas, the common food plant is the ‘‘chufa” (Cyperus 
esculentus). To such a degree is this true in the latter locality that 
the insect is supposed by farmers to have been introduced with that 
