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HICS 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus leucopterus Sn.y) 
Arkansas Jo W« Ingram (June 15): Over 500 acres of unflooded rice has 
"been destroyed "by chinch hugs in Arkansas County this spring. 
On a much larger acreage the chinch bugs have killed so many 
of the young rice plants that the stand is very poor. Where 
discovered in time the chinch bugs are being controlled by 
flooding the fields. Allsstages of the insect were found on rice 
in the unflooded fields. 
sugarcane? 
SUGARCANE BEETLE (S uetheola rugiceps Lee. ) 
Arkansas J. W, Lngrrm (June 16): Sugarcane beetles v?ere attacking rice in 
unflooded fields and lowering the stand to some extent in the 
vicinity of Stuttgart. A number of dead beetles were collected 
on the irrigation water in lately flooded fields, 
SUGARCANE BORER ( Piatraea srecharali s Fab. ) 
Louisiana T. E. Holloway and W„ E» Haley (May 20): At a plantation near 
Morgan City numerous "dead hearts" caused by the sugarcane moth 
borer were noticed in a garden plot of special varieties of sugar- 
cane. The owner estinated that within the last few weeks he has 
cut out 1,000 dead plants from about three- quarters of an acre. 
Besides large larvae we noticed one pupa* The borer is probably 
about two weeks in advance of a normal year. 
FOREST AND SHADE, TREE INSECTS 
GENERAL FEEDERS 
WHITE-MARKED TUSSOCK MOTH ( Hemerocampa leucostiaaa 
S. &A.) 
Massachusetts £» V* Schaffner Jr. The first generation of this species is 
very common in Everett and Revere, Mass., on shade trees. 
New York 
Nebraska 
R* E* Horsey (June 25): The white-marked tussock moth is reported 
as more numerous than usual in Rochester and occurs in some 
numbers in the vicinity of New York City # 
M. H» Swenk (May 25-June 25): An unusual abundance, amounting almost 
to an outbreak, of the white-marked tussock moth has developed 
in Lincoln and other cities in eastern Nebraska. 
New York 
Vermont 
FALL WEBWORM ( Hvphantria cunea Drury) 
E» P» Felt (June 25): Recently hatched fall webwonn larvae were 
observed near Albany June 15 p 
GREEN FRUIT WORM ( Graptolitha ant ennata Walk. ) 
J» V # Schaffner Jr. (June 26): An infestation of Xylina ant ennata 
