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of the area* Outside the regular general chinch hug infested area slight local 
infestations "by the first ‘brood’were reported from South Carolina and Mississippi. 
Heavy hut spotted summer rains over nost of the infested area, apparently further 
reduced the second brood, but . considerable local damage to ‘corn and sorghum hy 
this brood is . reported fron Missouri, Kansas, and. Oklahoma* (P* Lpginbill and 
C. Benton, ...Bureau .of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S, D. A.) 
Results of. the chinch hug survey conducted during the fall of 1941 to deter- 
mine the .extent and’ intensity of chinch hug infestations in the States of Illi- 
nois, Indiana, * Iowa., .Kansas, Missouri; Nebraska., and Oklahoma indicate that in- 
festations -in 1942,.. will in general probably he considerably lighter than those 
of 1941 * Appreciable, infestation still exists in southwestern Iowa‘, southeast- 
ern Nebraska,, northeastern Kansas, and northwestern Missouri, with scattered 
.infestations varying, in intensity . in .Oklahoma, Indiana, and, Illinois. (R. A. 
Sheals, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S'. D^ _A. ) 
HESSIAN FLY**,- -Hessian- fly populations were., low throughout eastern, north- 
central, • and. western Pennsylvania* eastern Maryland',, Delaware , . .northwestern and 
northeastern ,Yirginia ; northeastern Ohio, southwestern Michigan, northern Indi- 
ana, southwestern and. south- -central Nebraska, northwestern Kansas, and northern 
Oklahoma. There wore . menacing populations in -local fields and. areas in most of 
these regions. Outside of these areas and throughout the major winter V, lie at 
Belt general and- widespread. increase of the. hessian fly occurred during the 
year, extending from eastern Ohio and southeastern Michigan, over the southern, 
half of Indiana and Illinois,, across the greater 'part .of Missouri into the east- 
ern two-thirds of Kansas and fhe southeastern corner of Nebre.ska. A detailed 
hessian- fly report by ¥., B r Cartwright* appeared in Supplement to No. 6 of Volume 
21 of tho Insect Pest -Survey Bulletin, dated. August 15, 194l* 
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WHITE-FRINGED BEETLES ~ Inspections conducted during the 1941 season were 
confined chiefly to work around the periphery of. known infestations and to rail- 
road linos, and highways leading .out of are a,s infested by Pantomorus spp* in the 
States- of. Alabama, Florida,, Louisiana,. . and Mississippi* One new major infesta- 
tion was found in the vicinity of Martin, in- Dallas- .County,' Ala. Isolated in- 
festations were also found- in that. State at Ott, in Covington County; Toulmin- 
ville, Crichton, Monroe., Grand Bay, .and Irvington, in Mobile County; aVid at 
Floxiaton, . in Escambia County* 
In Mississippi infestations, were found for the first time at Brooklyn, in 
Forrest County; at Purvis and Lumber-ton, in Lamar County; .and at Wiggins, in . 
Stone County. ' ' - ’ 
In Louisiana infestations were found in Covington, in St,. Tammany Parish; 
and on Avery Island, in Iberia Parish. 
These new infestations in .the ..four affected States involve a total of 
approximately 9,450 acres... In addition to findings reported above, slight ex- 
tensions of practically. all areas of infestations found in previous years were 
recorded. The newly discovered areas, in which infestations were found for the 
first time during 1.94l, added to previously known infested areas, constitute 
a total infested acreage, as of the close of the calendar year 1941, of approxi" 
mately 9^,500 acres. Inspection within, the infested areas during 1941 indicat-es 
