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but I did not keep them. I think that I have noticed similar larvae in 

 young growing beans during the past year or two, but they were rare 

 and I gave no attention to them. Occasionally the infested beans grew 

 through the surface and the first leaves expanded, but they soon turned 

 yellow and withered and died." 



The Tile-horned Prionus in Prairie Land. — In our Second Mis" 

 souri Report we gave several instances of the finding of the larvae of 

 Prionus imbricornis in prairie land some distance from large trees, show- 

 ing that in all probability they fed on the roots of herbaceous and even 

 annual plants. The past summer another instance of the same thing 

 has come to our notice, and Mr. Samuel VV. Glenn, of Huron, Dak., 

 states in a letter dated June 3, accompanying a specimen of this larva, 

 that they were found " in large numbers by Mr. J. B. Coomer, a farmer 

 residing six and a half miles southwest of Huron, in ground which was 

 broken in June, 1883, and not since plowed till to-day. Their average 

 distance from the surface was about seven inches. There are no trees- 

 within a radius of twenty miles." 



The Clover-seed Midge in Wisconsin.— Up to the present seasorr 

 the Clover-seed Midge [Cecidomyia leguminieola Lintner) has been found 

 oul5 T in New York, Vermont, District of Columbia, Virginia, and one 

 locality in Pennsylvania (Lewisburg, Union County). During the past 

 year, however, we have received specimens of infested heads of red 

 clover from eastern Wisconsin, where it seems to have just been no- 

 ticed for the first time. The chances are against the theory of recent in- 

 troduction, however, and that the probabilities are that it has been pres- 

 ent in the State for some years, becoming abundant enough to attract 

 attention only this season. Mr. Claus Oesan, of New Holstein, Calu- 

 met County, wrote under date of June 26, 1885, that hardly a single 

 blossom was to be seen in any of the Red Clover fields in his vicinity, 

 while Alsike and White Clover blossomed as usual. He noticed this 

 same paucity of bloom in the second crop of the previous year, but the 

 first crop of 1884 w T as full of fine blossoms. 



This insect was treated in the reports of the Entomologist, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, for 1878 and 1879, and the remedy 

 recommended in the latter report is to cut the first crop of the season 

 three weeks earlier than usual, giving the larva' of the midge no time 

 to mature. This remedy necessitates that the farmer should be familiar 

 with the insect in all stages, and should make careful examinations at 

 short intervals until the proper time for cutting arrives. All volunteer 

 clover should also be mowed, and all of the farmers of a neighborhood 

 should cut at about the same time, as otherwise the remedy will 1>< 

 only partly successful. 



Dr. Lintner, in his First Report as State Entomologist of Xew York (p. 

 54), says : 



In the many instances in which our economic entomologists have recomniendei 

 plowing under the infested crop, I would venture to supplement this direction : foL 



