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from the roots of cabbage and radish. It was surmised that the larvae 
fed upon beet roots and perhaps crawled into the larval cases of the 
webworm for pupation. The writer indorses this opinion, and it 
would seem that beet is to be added as a food plant of this insect. a 
As in previous cases of reported injury, the maggots attacked the 
plants before they appeared above ground, and were found in the 
stems after the plant had reached a height of about 2 inches. 
In the year 1894 this species did damage to bean plants in Tippecanoe 
County, Ind., and Van Wert County, Ohio, as reported by Mr. F. 
M. Webster (Insect Life, Vol. VII, pp. 201-205). Adults were reared 
June 10 to 18. The nature of attack was as usual with this species. 
In the late Dr. Lugger's first annual report as entomologist of 
Minnesota for 1895 (1896, pp. 111-114, pi. 14, fig. 58), injury to young 
bean stalks b} r what is probably this insect is treated, the species 
receiving mention as the bean-fly (Anthomyia sp.). Whole fields of 
beans, in many places containing many acres, were reported as being 
completely ruined in the vicinity of Park Rapids, Minn. At Wadena, 
Minn., injury was also noted. After the seed had been planted about 
ten days and had not come up, Mr. H. W. Fuller, the Correspondent 
in question, had dug into the hills and found the beans gone. It was 
not until he had opened several hills that he succeeded in finding the 
maggots. According to Dr. Lugger, about one-third of the State was 
more or less infested with this enemy, which was new as regards 
known injury there. On some farms the insect destroyed nearly all 
bean plants, while on others farmers were forced to reseed their fields. 
Another locality specifically mentioned as having suffered losses from 
this insect was Alexandria, Minn., where about 25 per cent of the crop 
was destroyed, necessitating replanting. 
In 1897 this maggot was concerned in injury to seed-corn at 
Aitkens Ferry, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The corn was planted 
June 5 about 3 inches deep, and very little showed above ground. 
The spring was described as very wet and cold in that locality. This 
is recorded by Mr. M. V. Slingerland (Rural New Yorker, September 
11, 1897, p. 596). 
In the year 1900 Prof. W. Lochhead, Guelph, Canada, reported 
what is also in all probability the seed-corn maggot b as injurious 
during that }^ear in Lambton County, Canada. His note is published 
under the caption of "The Bean fly (Anthomyia radicwn)", and he 
states that in June many complaints reached him regarding the attacks 
of " grubs" on beans. Hundreds of acres were being destroyed, 
a Mention is made of the synonymy of this species, but the insect is unfortunately 
referred to as Phorbia fuscipes Zett. 
b There is very little doubt that the insect which was so injurious in 1895 in 
Minnesota and in 1900 in Canada was Phorbia fusciceps, but specimens are not avail- 
able, hence the identification can not be positively made at present. 
