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only one instance has the insect "been reported doing damage to 
sugarcane (in Monroe County): the damage is particularly on ccrn. 
(June IS): This insect has "been attacking corn and it is generally 
distributed ov er the State, particularly in fields that have been 
planted following the .turning of sod. They have destroyed ahyvhere 
from 50 to 95 per cent of fields of 2 to 50 ceres. 
Mississippi R« W d Earned (June 21): S'roa all sections of Mississippi complaints 
and specimens have "been received from correspondents in regard 
to the injury caused to 'corn and sugarcane "by Li^.vrus rugiceps . 
Louisiana C» E. Smith (June 10): At Lindsay the infestation was present on 
corn averaging about 6 inches high that was planted on sodland. 
The field consisted of 50 acres of com. Tsiq majority of the injured 
plants had just recently been attacked and no trouble was experienced 
in finding beetles in the soil at the base of freshly attacked 
plant 3„ A similar complaint was received from this same community 
on about May 2% The grower visited stated that this beetle had 
been active and killing corn for about a month. 
BLIBGEA5S 3ILLBUG ( Sohonoiohorus Tv-rvnlus Gyll. ) 
Nebraska M« H„ Swenk (June 25): Early in June a report was received of the 
destruction of about 2C .acres of ccrn in Nemaha County near Peru 
by the timothy bilibug. 
MAIZE BI1L3UG (Srhan onhorus ma idis Chittn. ) 
Kansas J« W. McColloch (June 15) : T^o fields of corn at ITiotaze were 
reported heavily infested May 25. J June 3)' A field of corn at 
Piedmont is infested. (June 9)- Ehe county agent of Montgomery 
County reports this species- in some cornfields. 
CGRIT EAR WORM (r el lot h is obsolete Fab . ) 
llorth E«> 7T rt leiby (June 11 )s reports of an outbreak of what is apparently 
Carolina this species in army worm proportions were received from Moore and 
EokO Counties on June 2, 3> a *id 10. The larvae migrated to cotton 
and corn from vetch fields when the vetch was out; for hay. They 
were successfully controlled by ploughed furrows, poi soned-bran 
mash, and calcium arsenate dust.. Parasitism appeared to be only 
moderate. To my knowledge at least 10 acres of corn and 20 acres 
of cotton were destroyed by the worms on three farms before they 
were controlled. 
Georgia Oliver I. Snapp (June 19): The corn car worm continued in abundance 
in Georgia, during early June. By that time it had appeared in 
vetch fields and peach orchards in the middle and northern' parts 
of the State. It was reported in large numbers from the southern 
part of the State last month. It has toon much mere numerous and 
injurious in the State this year than normally, doing serious 
