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Maryland. E. N. Cory (June 24): Observed, in usual abundance on flowers. 
Ohio. f. H. Parks (June 21): Injurious on fruit trees and flowers near 
Toledo , 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 21): Very abundant in parts of northern 
Indiana, attacking rose, peony, iris, and other flowers, also foliage 
of fruit trees and Chinese elm. First reports received on June 5* 
Tennessee. G. M'. Bentley (June 20): Noticed in unusual numbers on May 
26 on apples at McMinnville, Warren County. 
WIRE WORMS (Elatcridae) 
Maine. J. Hawkins (June l4) : Both adults and larvae of the wheat wire- 
worm ( Agriotes mancus Say) prosont in a field where potatoes were 
grown last year at Bcnedicta. Oats and wheat not seriously affected 
but seed pieces of potato planted in infested soil were injured. 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (June 20): Several acres of corn on bottom land 
along a creek between Grccnboro and Solbyville destroyed. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (June 23 ) J Approximately 50 percent of the 
tobacco in the vicinity of Lexington injured. Most common species 
was Aeolus dorsalis Say. A small percentage of- injtiry caused by 
larvae of Monocrepidius aur itus Hbst. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (June 22): Prairie grain wireworms, Ludius 
. aoreipennis Kby. , ranged from slightly over 2 per seed piece to few 
or none in potato fields along the edge of the Red River Valley area, 
from Edinburg to Walhalla. In one field near Walhalla Molanotus spp. 
predominated, with larvae present in about one- third of the potato 
seed pieces. 
Ar izona. 0. L. Barnes (June 13 ) : Present and causing some damage to 
young corn plants near Flagstaff on June 7-8. 
California. M. W. Stone (June 19) : A 10-acre field of tomatoes near 
Buena Park so damaged by Llmonius californicus Mann, that over 19 
percent of original stand was replanted and replants' also being 
damaged at time of examination. Counts made in 12 hills of potatoes 
in a 15 -acre field near Artesia showed over 50 percent of the tubers 
with 1 or more worm holes. 
BLISTER BEETLES (Meloidae) 
Virginia. A. M. Woodside (June 17 ) : Gardens in Augusta County damaged 
severely by a blister beetle. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 21): Macrobasis unicolor Kby. reported as 
defoliating alfalfa in Greene County on June 15* 
