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During September considerable emergence of the fly occurred in the East 
Central States. In most places, however, this emergence was too early to 
infest the sown reheat, hut volunteer wheat in this region was heavily in- 
fested and "became an important source of flies infesting sown wheat in 
early October. Owing to unusually favorable fall weather, oviposition 
continued later than usual in Illinois and Indiana. Heavy fall infesta- 
tions developed in many of the earlier sowings in these States. In Ohio 
the fly appeared to he somewhat more generally present in significant 
numbers than a yer.v ago, though the infestation averaged low. It was also 
light in southern Michigan. Drought during September and October in Ken- 
tuck./ and Tennessee curtailed fall fly activity and early wheat sowing. 
As a result of late fall rains "and persistently mild weather, however, 
light infestations developed successfully during November in some Kentucky 
and Tennessee fields. Fall infestations were reported heavy in the earli- 
er sowings in central and southeastern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska, 
and moderately heavy in north- central and northeastern Kansas, and in 
western Iowa, particularly in Monona County. In the remainder of the West 
Central States the fly was less abundant , 
CHINCH BUG 
Early spring observations in the East Central States indicated that 
the winter mortality of the chinch bug ( Elissus leuco-pterus Say) had been 
very low and presaged possible trouble from eastern Kansas to northwestern 
Ohio. During the middle of April the hug started migrating into small 
.grain in Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, with indications of possible 
serious damage in southeastern Kansas. By the middle of May the insect 
was appearing in threatening numbers in south-central Illinois, western 
Missouri, 'southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma, with rather 
large numbers appearing in scattered localities in Mississippi. By the 
end of June young bugs were appearing in western Ohio, central and south- 
ern Illinois, and central and western Missouri. During July damage to 
corn was reported from several western and northerns-counties in Ohio, from 
south-central and central Illinois, and from one locality in northeast- 
ern Indiana. During the early part of July these .insects were observed 
to be maintaining large populations in Iowa, southern South Dakota, and 
southwestern Nebraska. The damage on the whole, however, was not so seri- 
ous as was anticipated. During the latter nart of the summer the chinch 
bug; populations survived in such numbers as to indicate the possibility 
of damaging infestations next year over the normal chinch-bug belt, which 
extends diagonally from the eastern one-third of Kansas across central 
Missouri, south-central Illinois, and central Indiana, and into northeast- 
ern Ohio. Sporadic outbreaks occurred this year in Massachusetts, where 
this insect was very numerous over a small area in Berkshire County; con- 
siderable injury r.-as caused in Lincoln and Marshall Counties, Tenn. , and 
in many localities scattered throughout Mississippi; in Charleston, S. C, 
v.here there was quite a little damage to St. Augustine grass; and Colum- 
bia County in east- central Pennsylvania, where the damage was to Sudan 
grass, corn, and oats. Specimens were received from Glen Cove, Long 
Island, N. Y. .where they were damaging lawns. 
