REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 Tok 
destroyed, the insects waited with more or less patience for the 
appearance of something green. It is well known that this and 
allied species thrive on weeds, and, while clean culture may not 
be possible in a grain field, there is rarely a necessity of sowing 
after grain a crop which these little pests can 
seriously injure. If such a course be unavoid- 
able, they can be controlled by spraying the 
plants early with a poisoned bordeaux mix- 
ture. 
Fringed anthomyian, Phorbia ? fusci- 
eeps Zett. The bean fields in several parts +, 93 pale striped flea 
: beetle, enl d iginal 
of the state suffered considerably from the “7 Oren) 
attack of some insect. The trouble was first brought to 
our attention by J. F. Rose, South Byron, Genesee co., and 
July 10 a number of fields were visited in his company. A 
great many bare stalks occurred in several fields, and on inves- 
tigation it was found that much of the injury of this character 
must have been caused by a maggot working on the delicate 
plumule before the plants broke ground and probably before the 
process of germination had much more than begun. A number 
of these bare stems were found to be even then infested with 
dipterous maggots, which were working in the stalks and pro- 
ducing large cavities surrounded by brownish, partly decayed 
tissues. The species was identified provisionally from larvae 
taken under such conditions. Unfortunately, we were not able 
to obtain adults and thus make an authentic determination pos- 
sible. The greatest injury was observed in a field which had 
been sown to wheat the previous fall and through the activity 
of the Hessian fly had been destroyed. This field had been 
plowed and planted to beans. The reason for greater injury on 
‘such fields is probably found in the fact that grain offers abun- 
dant food for such insects, and, when this is suddenly destroyed, 
the insects naturally turn to the most available crop, and <a 
the case of a thinly planted one like beans, serious injuries may 
result. Newspaper reports mention a similar trouble in Orleans 
county. 
