AS BULLETIN 221, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
be found. However, in the pile of rubbish and dirt at the side of the 
gin which had been thrown from the dirt auger several fragments of 
dead beetles were found. The manager of this gin could not give 
any information regarding the occurrence of the beetles. He had 
noticed, however, some large brown cases which occurred rather 
Pamcrncely early in the fall, probably the pupal cases of the cotton 
leaf-worm (Alabama arallncen Etibm:): 
CROPS DAMAGED. 
Corn is the only cultivated crop that has been known to be attacked 
in sufficient numbers to cause serious damage. The beetles, upon 
first emerging from hi- 
bernation in the early 
spring, attack very 
young cocklebur and 
early volunteer corn, 
the crop not having been 
planted at that time. 
Besides corn, the 
beetles have been ob- 
served by the writer to 
attack the young leaves 
and growing shoots of 
cocklebur, smartweed, 
Japan clover, and crab 
erass. Mr. Vickery has” 
observed them feeding 
on sorghum and alfalfa 
—on the latter plant, 
however, only in rearing 
cages in the laboratory. 
Mr. W. R. McConnell 
has found them feeding 
on sorghum in the field 
Fic. 6.—Young corn plant showing work of adult of the southen gnd also on Alopecurus 
corn leaf-beetle. (Original.) : 
geniculatus. Some of 
the agents of the branch of Southern Field Crop Insect Investigations 
have observed them feeding on the cotton plant. 
The ragged appearance of the corn plant (fig. 6) is indicative 
of their presence, especially the notched edges of the leaves, and where 
the beetles appear in sufficient numbers to devastate a field these 
notches become so numerous that the plant dies. (Pl. IL.) The 
early planting seems to be the one most seriously affected, although 
the second planting on the farm of a Mr. Baskins and on other 
farms near Paris, Ark., was about 50 per cent damaged in 1913, the 
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