Krjnsris, ¥, T, Encry (Jul^/ 17): Elidits to row crops have heen conspicuous 
in the Bi/^ Blue Biver Yallcy of Biley Coruty. ¥cathcr conditions nec- 
essitated replanting of corn and serr;!:^ crops in this area, and early 
in July a. heavy infestation of winged chinch hugs was found destroying 
the young corn and sorsghu-U plants in the nore sandy soils, several 
acres int extent, while the larger parts of the fields were in gcncraJ 
thoroughly infested, Eirst-instar hugs ha,d hegun to appean hy July 17 « 
Oklahona. R, G. Daims (Aufrnst 22): Second generation is very a.hundant on 
sorghuns in the sov-thwestern part of the State, Infestation reached a 
peak too late to kill nany sorghun plants, hut, they are causing severe 
shriveling of the grain in some late-planted fields, 
COEl'T LEAF APHID ( Aphi s naidis Pitch) 
Ohio, T. A, -i-'rij-ijs (August 26 ): InfestcO.tions arc local and spotted, hut are 
not as serioti.s generally as la.st year, 
Utali, G. P. hnowlton (August 4 ); Attacking sono corn plants at Grantsvillc, 
A PL/AIB BUG ( Chlorochroa ulilori StaJ) 
ITorth Dakota, J. A, Munro (August 22): Cornfields exanined in the Hague 
and Stranhurg vicinities in Pnnons Co^inty on August l 4 were, infested 
-•at the rate of a.hout 11 hugs per corn plant. In the southwestern 
counties the insect is very seance as conpaned with last year, the re- 
du.ction evidently being due to a tachinid pananitc which was present 
in a,hou'‘ SO percent of the hu.gs in this anca.. Parasites were not cn- 
co\mterod in the Ila-guc and Strashurg vicinities, 
COPIT ROOBUOPIIS ( Diahrotica spp.) 
Kentuclej-. M. L, Didlake (Augrist ,26): Southern corn rootworn (D, duodecin- 
punctata;. P.) dana.gcd corn a,t Marion on August S, 
ITchranka,. 0. S, Bare (Au,gust 13 )^ Adults of the northern corn rootv/orn 
(D, longicornis Say) were received fron ¥a„yne County on August 12, Re- 
ported as causing serious dau.iago to corn, 
A SYITPHID ( liesograjnna. politun Say) 
Illinois, C, L, Metcalf (August 23): A serious infosta.tion of field corn 
in Douglas County, east-central Illinois, in August, 252 larvan of all 
sizes and a. fev^ pupae kaving keen collected fron the tansels and top- 
nost 5 Ica.ves of a single stalk of corn. This sporadic insect has 
taken on now significance with the dcvclopncnt of the hyhrid-corn in- 
dustry, Tlio larvae oak the pollen and suck sap fron the superficial 
cells in the axils of the Ica.vcs, and in this instance they v/ere es- 
pecially a.hundant on a^ particular variety being groin) for the pollina- 
tion, artificially, of hybrids. So nuch of the pollen vra.s destroyed 
thak the crop wan practically useless for pollinakion purposes. 
