CLOVER ROOT BORIS' ( Hy las tl nus.' obg cufus MdrsJaam) 
Hew York. N. Y. State Coll, Agr. Hews Letter ("May 1 5 ) ! On May 12 the first 
beetles appeared on screens of cages at' Oswego, Destructive in Oswego, 
Onondaga, Cayuga, and Steuben Counties in the suhrifer of 193S* Most of the 
injury was on medium red clover, with some on mammoth but none on alsike. 
California. E, 0, S s s ig, • (May 8) : First report of clover root borer on vetch in 
California made from Eureka, Humboldt County. Occurrence rare in this State, 
; ’ THRIPS ( Thys an opt era) 
Hebraska. D. B. Whelan (May 1-8); Ho ted as Very serious in a 5~acre field of al- 
falfa near Ashland, Saunders 'County, and In experimental plantings near 
Lincoln, Lancaster County, on May 17. 
' .A , VETCH f 
" VETCH BRUCHID ( Bruchus brachial is Ea.hr . ) 
Horth Carolina. J, S. Pinckney (April 24) : Eirst weevils emerging from hiberna- 
tion quarters swept in the .field today -at Statesville. 
Washington, W, W. Baker and B. J. Landis (May 20): Adults were swept from vetch 
in an orchard south of Husum, Klickitat County, • on' May 5* 
, . GRASS ' • • 
MEADOW FLAM 1 BUG (Miris do lob rat us L. ) 
Kentucky. W. A. Pri^e (May 23): Very numerous on orchard grass at Lexington dur- 
ing May. 
SUGARS AILS 
■ SUGAHQAHE BEETLE (Euetheola rugiceps Lee.)' 
Mississippi, <5. Lyle (May 23): Specimens received from Marion County, where they 
* wore injuring com. 
Louisiana. J. W. Ingram (May 17): Injury lighter than usual, although there were 
some localities that suffered heavy losses of stand’. Practically all beetles 
had stopped feeding by the middle of May, . ... 
YSLLCW SUGARCAHE APHID ( Sipha f lava Eorbes ) 
Louisiana. J. W. Ingram ( May 17 ): More abundant on sugarcane than they have been 
in recent years * apparently owing to" th6 . abnormally- prolonged drought this 
spring. Injury to lower leaves observed in all fields. 
