THE LESSER CORN STALK-BORER. 



commonly reported from the States bordering the Gulf of Mexico 

 and the southern Atlantic coast. It has been encountered causing 

 injury in Arizona. Dr. Forbes reports it as having been taken at 

 Various points in southern Illinois. There is a specimen in the National 

 Museum rather indefinitely labeled "Iowa." The late Prof. F. M. 

 Webster observed some of the moths years ago at Lafayette , Ind. 

 In addition to the one mentioned above there are specimens in the 

 National Museum bearing locality labels indicating that the moths 

 have been taken at Cohasset, Mass.; Clemson College, S. C.; Miami, 

 Palm Beach, and Lakeland, Fla.; New Orleans, La.; Dallas, Browns- 

 ville, Sabinal, Kerrville, Victoria, and Burnet County, Tex.; and 

 San Diego, Cal. John B. Smith, in his List of the Insects of New 

 Jersey, records it from Newark and Montclair and states that it will 



Fig. 1.— I 



showing present known distribution of the lesser corn stalk-borer (Elasmopalpus 

 lignosellus) in the United States. (Original.) 



be found throughout the State. It undoubtedly occurs throughout 

 Mexico and has been reported from the Bahama Islands. 



FOOD PLANTS. 



The following is a list of food plants upon which the larvse of this 

 species have been found to feed, given here with locality, date, and 

 collector or observer: 



Beans: 



Auburn, Ala., August 16, 1889 (F. S. Earle); Charleston, S. C, September 27, 

 1889 (H. M. Simmons). 

 Corn (Zea mays) : 



Augusta, Ga., 1881 (C. V. Riley); Illinois, 1905 (S. A. Forbes); Lakeland, Fla., 

 April 25, 1913 (Geo. G. Ainslie); Columbia, S. C, 1913-1914 (P. Luginbill); 

 Tempe, Ariz., October, 1914 (Edmund H. Gibson). 



