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C?.LZ?Y 
&ARDE1I STRINGTAIL ( Sniinthurus h or ten sis Pitch) 
Mew Hoi-k C, R, Crosby and assistants (-June 11); a number of plaiting 
of the celery crop on a muck area in Ontario County were rather 
seriously injured. In Nassau County it <- as found doing appr cis3tt€ 
damage . 
QUI ON 
ONION MAGGOT ( Kvlemy ia entioua Meig. ) 
Indiana 3„ J, Davis (June 26): Onion maggots have "been unusually abundant 
and destructive in the northern fourth of the State. Reports -ere 
received between June 15 and 23 from Albion, Larwrll, South Bend, 
Helmer, and Pleasant Lake. 
Michigan R s K. Pet tit (June 25); The onion maggot is much worse than us- 
this year at East Lansing. 
Wisconsin S. B„ Tracker (June 16): 3-d in Sauk, Vernon, Monroe, an . 
Counties. 
Illinois Co C Compton (June 5) r The onion maggot injury is beginning tr 
show up in the onion growing districts in Cook County. Considerable 
injury is expected* 
Lontana R, A, Cooley (June 7): This species is doing damage in western 
Montana this season the first '-eek in June. 
CUTwOHMS (Noctuidae) 
New York c. R. Crosby/ and assistants (June £): About 300 acres of onions 
in Orange County have been "destroyed this year in the muck area 
near Goshen. 
PALL ARMY170RM ( laphygma frugiper da S. & A.) 
Mississippi R. T7. Harned (June 21); Inspector H. Gladney sent to this office 
on June 7 seme specimens that were identified as the couth' 
grass worm, Laphygma frug iperda , by P. S. Crumb of the TJ. S. Bureau 
of Entomology „ In regard to these specimens Mr. Gladney wrote 
as follows: "They are over about 5^ acres of Bermuda onion, 
are doing serious damage. In places the ground has been made barcj 1 
ONION THRI PS (T h.r3.ps tabaci L.) 
Texas 0* G^ Babcock (May 25): Onions grown from sets at Angel are 
heavily infested by this pest; the stems are badly blistered and 
spotted t. out. Rather severe damage. 
