THE LESSER CORN STALK-BORER. 5 
commonly reported from the States bordering the Gulf of Mexico 
and the southern Atlantic coast. It has been encountered causing 
injury in Arizona. Dr. Forbes reports it as having been taken at 
various points in southern Illinois. There is a specimen in the National 
Museum rather indefinitely labeled "Iowa," The late Prof. F. M. 
Webster observed some of the moths years ago at Lafayette, Ind. 
In addition to the one mentioned above there are specimens in the 
National Museum bearing locality labels indicating that the moths 
have been taken at Cohasset, Mass.; Clemson College, S. C; Miami, 
Palm Beach, and Lakeland, Fla.; New Orleans, La.; Dallas, Browns- 
ville, Sabinal, Kerrville, Victoria, and Burnet County, Tex.; and 
San Diego, Cal. John B. Smith, in his List of the Insects of New 
Jersey, records it from Newark and Montclair and states that it will 
Fig. 1.— Map showing present known distribution of the lesser corn stalk-borer (Elasmopalpus 
lignosellus) in the United States. (Original.) 
be found throughout the State. It undoubtedly occurs throughout 
Mexico and has been reported from the Bahama Islands. 
FOOD PLANTS. 
The following is a list of food plants upon wdiich the larvae of this 
species have been found to feed, given here with locality, date, and 
collector or observer: 
Beans: 
Auburn, Ala., August 16, 1889 (F. S. Earle); Charleston, S. C, September 27, 
1889 (H. M. Simmons). 
Corn (Zea mays) : 
Augusta, Ga., 1881 (C. V. Riley); Illinois, 1905 (S, A. Forbes); Lakeland, Fla., 
April 25, 1913 (Geo. G. Ainslie); Columbia, S. C, 1913-1914 (P. Luginbill); 
Tempe, Ariz., October, 1914 (Edmund H. Gibson). 
