BULLETIN No. 195. 



INSECT NOTES FOR 191 1.* 



o. a. johannsen, 

 Edith M. Patch. 



The miscellaneous notes here presented are for the most 

 part abstracts from our Station records for the current year. 

 Though some of the items are trivial they contain data by way 

 of direct observation, locality or host plant record which give 

 them a certain significance for our own State. Many of the 

 notes are rendered more complete by the summer collections 

 and insectary work of A^r. William C. Woods to' whom as well 

 as to various voluntary collectors throughout the State, a gen- 

 eral acknowledgment is due. 



COLEOPTERA. 

 elateridae;. 



Wire ivorms in corn. 



In the spring of 191 1 a two acre plot was planted with 

 sweet corn at Highmoor Farm, Monmouth, Maine. Owing 

 to the great number of wire worms present, many of the seeds 

 were so badly eaten that they failed to germinate and many 

 of the plants showed such feeble growth that only a partial 

 stand on the lower and none upon the upper portion of the 

 plot was obtained. • This circumstance gave us an excellent 



* Papers from the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station : Entomol- 

 ogy No. 48. 



