CLOVER STEM-BORER AS AN ALFALFA PEST. 3 
and the Southern States, some of the Western States, and parts of 
Canada.” Members of the force of the Bureau of Entomology have 
collected it at the following places: 
ite Parks: G. G. Ainslie: Hurricane Mills, Tenn. 
Asheville, N. C. W. H. Larrimer: Nashville, Tenn. 
Arlington, Va. F. M. Webster: Lafayette, Ind. 
Chevy Chase, Md. V. A. Roberts: Oxford, Ind. 
Wellington, Kans. EK. O. G. Kelley: 
E. H. Gibson: Dow, Ill. 
Nashville, Tenn. Coulterville, Ill. 
Buena Vista, —— P. Hayhurst: Wellington, Kans. 
A. B. Gahan: J. A. Hyslop: Wolfville, Md. 
Jackson, Tenn. 
Chattanooga, Tenn. 
W.E. Pennington: 
Meyersville, Md. 
Hagerstown, Md. 
C. N. Ainslie: Wolsey, S. Dak. 
The authors have taken it, in various localities, in Lower Cali- 
fornia, Mexico, and in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. 
It is not only of wide distribution but it inhabits localities of widely 
different altitudes, occurring in the Imperial Valley of California, 250 
feet below sea level, and at Ash Fork, Ariz., at an elevation of 5,148 
feet. It is especially abundant, however, in the eastern and central 
red clover districts and reaches its greatest numbers in the southern 
and southwestern alfalfa districts. 
FOOD PLANTS. 
The two cultivated plants that seem to be the favorite food for 
the larva of this beetle are alfalfa and red clover. Besides these, 
the insect has a great variety of host plants, many of which belong 
to the Compositae. Fortunately many of these plants are weeds, 
the destruction of which will aid in the control of the depredator. 
A complete list of food plants with authority for each is given 
below: 
PN Mabeys @IMCGNCAGO; SALIUO)2 a2 a= 2 oe oS: St soe ss V. L. Wildermuth. 
iRedeclover(Lrijoluum, pratense) ...-5-24-----+-- J. H. Comstock. 
White sweet clover ( Melilotus alba). ..........- C.M. Weed. 
Yellow sweet clover ( Melilotus officinalis)....... F. H. Gates. 
Burclover (Medicago hispida)... ..-....2.---+---- V. L. Wildermuth. 
ibumotlny CPhilewm: pratense). 22... 2. 2. - F. M. Webster. 
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus).....-..---------- Gates and Wildermuth. 
Ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemum es 
Daisy fleabane (Hrigeron ramosus) - Seis ae 
Prick fleabane (Erigeron Binlederon ici) 
Mares tails (Hrigeron canadensis).......-.------ 
ihistle:(Cnvews aliissumus, )- 230.4. 322 5-2-5 se 
Trumpet weed (Lactuca canadensis)...-...-.---- 
Wild lettuce (Lactuca floridana).........-.-- ee Cee ot 
Cone-flower (Rudbeckia laciniata)....-.....----- 
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) ......------- oes 
habimettle (Urtica gracilis) == 21 4e ss sens 3 2 = 
ans H. Chittenden. 
