-150- 
New Jersey* C.A, Clark (May 23)j ' Pupation had reached 51 percent in 
Burlington County on May 23« Moth emergence was found to he 4 percent. 
Field examinations made in the nor thwes ter, p. part of the county. Spring 
development considerably- hehind normal, being a week' later than in 1939* 
COEN FLEA BEETLE ( Chaetocnema pulicaria ' Melsh. ) • 
Mississippi# C. Lyle (May 25) S Reported as at; tacking corn in Monroe County 
the last week in April* . 
■ SOUTHERN CORN EOOTWOEM ( Diabrotica duodecimpun^tata ' F. ). 
Georgia, T, L. Bissell (May 10): Damage to corn beginning to show up at 
Experiment. The larvae are well grown, 
Mississippi* C. Lyle (M^ 25)s Injuiy to corn reported from Harrison County. 
, CORN ROOT APHID ( Anuraphis maidi“*radicis Forbes) 
lov^* H. E. Jaques (May): Reported from Monona County, western'Iowa, and fros 
Wapello and Henry Counties, southeastern Iowa# 
SHORT-TAILED CRICKET ( Anurogryllus ' muticus Deg,) 
South Carolina. W, C. Nettles (May 27): Severe injury >to ^ acres of com 
near Chester, in the central part of , the State, 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( kypera * postica Gyll, ) 
Idaho# F. H. Shirck-(May 21): Noted at Parma in greater numbers than for 
several year a. Damage moderate, 
Utah; G. F. Knowlton'and assistants (May)^ Injury to alfalfa has been 
" occurring in- scattering localities all during the month from northern 
•Utah all the way to the south along the central part of the State, 
California, A, E. Michelbacher (May 22): The number of larvae collected 
per 100 sweeps of an insect net in the infested part of the San Joaquin 
Valley on May 7 ranged from 0 to I 67 # and the number of adults from 
0 to 362 * . On May 21 the larval count ranged from 0 to nearly 200, 
and the adult count from 3 to 432# Only in a rather small area south 
of Tracy is the adult-population density high. In this restricted region 
the population is the largest encountered’ since this investigation was 
started in 1932* Extremely scarce at Pleasanton on May 7 Q-ud on May 21 
none were collected. In the region adjacent to San Francisco Bay on 
May 7 the larval count ranged from S to I 96 , and the, adult count from 
0 to 2. On May 21 the larval count ranged from 5 to 50 and the adult 
count from 1 to 3* Throughout the entire infested region the amount 
of parasitization by Bathyplectes curculionis Thoms,, based on rearing 
from last-stage larvae 'collected in the field on May 7» was slightly 
in excess of 95 percent# 
