the complaint of its having worked serious injuries." In this in- 

 stance it had operated about Trenton, Mich., where the insects fed 

 upon the seed kernels, as previously observed by the writer, and they 

 were found working in a large proportion of the hills soon after 

 planting. 



DEPREDATIONS IN THE SPRING OF 190G. 



During the spring of 190G the depredations of this little pest 

 appear, to have been unusually severe and more widespread in their 

 distribution over the country. Aside from the cases where the de- 

 struction was definitely and unmistakably traced to this insect, there 



Fig. 2. — Field of corn near New Paris, Ohio, which had been devastated by Glivina im- 

 presslfrons. Photograph taken after plants had attained considerable size (original). 



were hundreds of instances where the seed corn failed to germinate 

 and the owners of these fields could offer no explanation therefor. 

 They knew only that they were obliged to replant much of their 

 corn, and in many cases the replanting failed, as did the first. In 

 such cases as these last it is of course impossible to fasten the respon- 

 sibility for the destruction upon this insect, but all such fields as 

 were examined by the writer — unfortunately too late to observe the 

 depredator — were precisely such as we would look for in searching 



a Bui. 223, Mich. State Agric. Coll. Exp. Sta., p. 50, rigs. 51, 52. 

 [Circ 78] 



