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EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyrausta nyjiiloijs Huebn.) 
Massachusetts A. I- Bourne (May 22): A report frca Winchester, in Middlesex 
County, relative to the European corn borer states that it has been' 
found in no greater numbers this spring than was the case last year. 
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H. A. Gossard (May ll) : As a matter of course we expect seme in- 
crease in the density of infestation of the European corn borer this 
season and slow spread of the species. 
SMARTTEED BORER ( Pyrausta ainsliei Heinr.) 
C.J. Drake (.May 10): This spring I have received several cater- 
pillars of the smartweed borer that were found in old corn stalks. 
The farmers, of course, were very much interested ar.d wondered whether 
this was the European corn borer. 
FALL ARMYWORM ( Laphygraa frugirerda S. & A.) 
T. E. Holloway and V7. E. Haley (May 3): Half -grown larvae found in 
young corn plants . 
SUGAR-CANE BORER (D iatraea saccharaiis Fab.) 
T. E. Holloway and W . E. Haley (May 17): In Orleans Parish larvae 
of all sizes are attacking young corn along the lake shore west of 
Little V/oods. Much damage is done in places. 
T. C, Barber (May 19): Cornfields, generally, are becoming infested, 
and adult emorgence holes indicate that adults of the spring brood 
have emerged. Damage is very slight, as yet, but rapidly increasing. 
Infestation can also be found in broom-corn fields without much 
difficulty, and threatens to cause serious damage later in the season, 
although the first crop will not be much injured. 
GRASS-STEM WEEVIL ( Sphenophorus sp.) 
E. E. Scholl (May El): An examination of corn-fields in the northern 
part of Lincoln and the southern part of Payne County, near Goodnight, 
Okla., showed entire fields of young corn killed by a grass-stem 
weevil. 
TWELTOiS POTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica 12-ourcteta Oliv.) 
Philip Luginbill (May 17): Mr. Kewley has returned from Willard, 
N.C., where he has made an inspection of our plantings, and reports 
the damage by the roctwonn to be about the same as in previous years. 
Strange to say, at Columbia it is decidedly less. The planting made 
in April, which is usually baaly infested with rootwerms , is very 
little injured this year. It would seem that this year rootworm 
injury is "spotted" so to speak; probably heavier along the coast, as 
weather extremes are not so marked. I have had considerable diffi- 
culty in rearing larvae this season, owing to low temperatures and 
damp weather. I think, therefore, that young larvae may have faired 
similarly in the field, and that is why we do net find so much damage 
to young corn this year, that is, in inland regions. 
