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CHINCH BUG- ( Blissus leucoptcrus Say-) ' 
Illinois. W. P. Flint (March 26): More chinch bugs were hibernating on 
farms in the State during the winter than ever before, with the excep- 
tion of the winter of 1933“3^» Approximately 75 the 102 counties 
in the State included in the infested area, which extends from the nor- 
thern tier of counties southward to Randolph, Washington, Wayne, and 
Wabash Counties. Recent counts show that large numbers have come 
through the winter. Area of probable infestation extends roughly 1 
tier of counties farther south and 2 tiers farther north than last year. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 27): The heavy snow blanket has apparently 
helped materially in protecting chinch bugs from the severe cold. Re- 
cent surveys indicate that throughout the north- central, heavily infested 
section of the State, winter mortality is less than 25 percent, where 
snow coverage was present. Some readings as low as 10 percent, and in 
clearer spots as high as 35 percent. In central Missouri, mortality 
seems to be considerably higher, as high .in some counts as 30 percent, 
even where there was a good deal of snow. 
Oklahoma. R. G. Dahms (March): Winter mortality was 1.9 percent, based on 
the number of live end dead bugs recovered from 50 samples of Andropogon 
scoporius in southwestern Oklahoma, during the first 15 days of March. 
A few bugs migrated from winter quarters to small grains on March 21 
and 23 . 
BROWN WHEAT MITE ( To tr any china tritici Ewing) 
Oklahoma. R. G. Dahms (March): Very abundant in most wheatfields in 
s outhwe stern ' Oklahoma . 
F. A. Fenton (March 26 ): One field of barley in south-western 
Oklahoma has been very seriously damaged by a mite, which has been 
tentatively identified as this species. 
CORN 
SEED-CORN MAGGOT ( Hylemya cilicrura Pond.) 
Texas. . R. K. Fletcher (March 2o): Seed corn in Brown County severely 
injured on March l 6 . 
, ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( HypPra rostica Gy 11.) 
Nevada. G. G. Schweis (March 27): Adults observed in a recent survey 
of some of the alfalfa fields in Douglas County. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (March 19): On March 13 , alfalfa fields in 
the northwestern part of the San Joaquin Valley were surveyed. The 
number of larvae collected per 100 sweeps of an insect net in the 
different fields ranged from 0 to 3.500. Adult counts ranged from 0 to 
53* Populations were small over most of the infested region end in 
most fields less than 100 larvae were collected per 100 sweeps. Only 
in a relatively small area south of Tracy was a large population found, 
the larval count ranging from 500 to 3.500. At present the alfalfa is 
