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SAY'S BLISTER BEETLEl. ( Pompho-poea sayi Lee.) 
L. C. Glover (July 1): There have been several reports of 
Say's blister beetle this month. It seems to be quite abund- 
ant in certain localities on the western side of the State. 
E. P. Pelt (July 21): Say's blister beetle appeared in 
very large numbers at Danbury. 
C. H. Crosby (June 26): Many specimens were received from 
New Bremen. They were very numerous on beans. 
E. L. Chambers (July 21): Corn in LaCrosse County was re- 
ported injured in one spot by large numbers of these giant 
bluish-black blj ster beetles. More than 50 specimens were 
collected by the farmers without difficulty in a small area, 
they were so abundant. 
GrABDM WESTOPM ( Loxostege similali s Guen. ) 
J. A. Monro and assistants (July): Garden webworms have 
been very abundant in the southern part of Steele County. 
(July 3): The garden and sugar be?t webworms are unusually 
abundant and causing much damage. 
M. H, Scenic (Julyl): During the last week in June, in 
Johnson and northern Gage Counties, there was a severe local 
outbreak of the garden webworm in the cornfields, some of 
which were badly damaged. 
E. R. Bryson (July 23): The garden webworm has been very 
abundant during the past month and has caused considerable 
injury to alfalfa, soybeans, corn, and garden crops. 
FALSE CHINCH BUG ( Nysius ericae Schill. ) 
J. N. Tcnhet (July 15): Several patches of early cowpeas 
in this vicinity are being seriously damaged ay the false 
chinch bug. 
C. N. Ainslie (July 7): The false chinch bug is very nu- 
merous over a large area this summer, and swarms of the bugs 
are discovered when their shelter is removed. Actual damage 
is not easy to estimate, for its food plants are various, but 
it has frequently been mistaken by farmers for the true chinch 
bug. 
M. H. Sv enk (July 1 - 15): In the southwest, especially 
Deuel, Dundy, Rodwillow, and Frontier Counties, the false 
chinch bug has 'ocq:\ very numerous on garden truck of all kinds, 
but tending to concentrate largely on the beets. 
