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while it is fresh and succulent. The ears of the injured corn have the appearance of 

 having had the silk cut off as by a knife, the feeding is so even and smooth. The 

 beetle caused serious losses on many farms. 



As the Luperodes beetles congregated only on the silk at the ends of the ears, and 

 as the plants were in most cases at least eight to ten feet high with the ears five or 

 six feet from the ground, difficulty was at fu'st encountered in properly apph-ing 

 arsenical poisons. D. L. TMUiams of Rankin Coimty, Mississippi, deserves credit 

 for devising a very satisfactory method of applying the arsenicals for these beetles. 

 He filled an ordinary "talcum powder" can with Paris green and while walking be- 

 tween the rows of corn stopped at each plant just long enough to shake the poison 

 dh-ecth^ upon the silk. In this waj- none of the Paris green was wasted and it feU 

 just where it was needed. The corn was treated rapidly as one man covered a num- 

 ber of acres each day. Mr. WiUiams stated that the men applying the Paris green 

 walked at a slow steady gait. It required just one shake of the ''talcum powder" 

 can at each plant. In the fields that were treated in this manner, rehef from these 

 beetles was immediately obtained. Untreated fields were much more seriously 

 damaged, as the beetles remained on the plants and continued to eat the silk as fast 

 as it grew out from the ears. 



All of the records we have of this species show that the beetles appear in injm-ious 

 numbers about July 1 in the Gulf States. Some years no complaints are received 

 and it is frequently a minor pest of cotton, devouring both the leaves and blossoms. 

 In 1905 in his Alonogi-aph of Insect Injurious to Indian Corn, Professor S. A. Forbes 

 wrote in regard to this beetle that "Its life-history is unknown." If anyone has 

 learned anj'thing in regard to the Hfe-history of this species, it should be pubhshed, 



R. W. Harxed, Agricultural College, Miss. 



TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF 

 ECONOMIC ENTOJ^IOLOGISTS 



The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the American Association of Economic 

 Entomologists wiU be held at Columbus, O., dm-ing the Christmas hohdays. Members 

 will be duly notified of further details concerning the meeting and of arrangements 

 for hotel headquarters and railroad rates. 



At the annual meeting action will be taken on applications for membership in 

 the Association and blank forms for making appUcation for membership can be 

 secured from the Secretary or from Prof. Wilmon Newell, Gaines\'ille, Fla., who is 

 Chairman of the Committee on Membership. It is particularh^ requested that 

 parties desiring membership should file their apphcations. properly made out, as 

 early as possible so as to facilitate the work of the Committee on iMembership at 

 the time of the meeting. 



A. F. Bttrgess, Secretary. 



Mailed October 15, 1915. 



