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plants at Lincoln, Nebr., doing even more damage than the cut- 
worms. It was also said to have attacked other garden crops, but 
these are not definitely recorded. 
In 1895 Prof. C. V. Piper published an article in the Northwest 
Horticulturalist in which he refers to Eleodes larve attacking garden 
crops. 
In 1898 Mr. Theo. Pergande ' notes having received from McPher- 
son, Kans., two larvee of a tenebrionid with the statement that they 
do serious damage to wheat in Salina County, Kans., by attacking 
the grain when it becomes softened, destroying the germ. From one 
of these larvee an adult was reared whee proved to Be Eleodes sutura- 
ls Say. In the autumn of 1911 Mr. E. O. G. Kelly, of this office, 
found the wheat in southern Kansas attacked by an Eleodes larva 
which may prove to belong to this latter species. 
In 1908 Mr. Myron Bivenle? > assistant State entomologist of 
Nebraska, reported Hleodes opaca Say as doing very serious decane 
to wheat in Nebraska, in some instances 60 per cent of the seed 
having been destroyed. 
The larve were first found by the author in enormous numbers in 
May, 1909, in a wheat field south of Pullman, Wash. The field was 
entirely ruined and had to be reseeded, though these depredations 
were not entirely due to the Eleodes, as a true wireworm, the larvee 
of Corymbites inflatus Say, was also very numerous. 
On May 12 several adult Eleodes pimelioides Mann. were found at 
a depth of about 4 inches below the surface in the field above men- 
tioned, and more were found under boards and rubbish about the 
fields. Many larve were placed in flowerpot rearing cages with 
wheat as food, and on July 3 a pupa was found in one of these cages. 
On July 20 an adult Hleodes pimelioides emerged. Later examination 
of several collections very clearly indicates that this species is far the 
more predominant in the Palouse country. 
Other species known to occur in this region are Eleodes obscura Say 
var. sulcipennis Mann., Eleodes hispilabris Say var. levis Blaisd., 
Eleodes extricata Say, Eleodes manni Blaisd., Eleodes hwmeralis Lec., 
Eleodes schwarzii Blaisd., and Eleodes nigrina Lec. 
In the spring of 1909, on examining an oat field at Govan, Wash., 
that had been almost completely destroyed, many tenebrionid larve, 
Eleodes letcherr Blaisd. var. vandyker Blaisd., were found crawling 
over the surface of the field. They had evidently been forced to 
leave the ground by a heavy rain which fell the day before. On 
digging in this field many more larve were found about ready to. 
pupate. 
In the spring of 1910 the adults were found in enormous numbers 
on the roadsides in the Big Bend region and in the middle of the 


Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 8186. 2 Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 2, p. 332, 1909. 
