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GREATER "■- ' M lA'^GOT ( Meromyza americana Fitch) 
North Dakota C. N. Ainslie (August 21): This fly is, as usual, placing its egg: 
freely on blades of the various .Agropyrons (A. smith ii "being the 
species perhaps most commonly selected). Adult flies can he swept 
almost anywhere from these grasses- These flies have years ago 
been observed ovipositing on Agropyron blades, almost invariably 
placing its solitary egg on the top of the leaf. In North Dakota 
the egg is deposited near the base of the leaf. Wheat is attacked 
slightly this year. 
WHEAT JOINTWOSM (Earm olita tritici Fitch) 
North Carolina Bureau of Entomology Monthly Letter No. 123 (July): W. J. Phillips 
visited Greensboro July 4 to investigate an infestation of the wheat 
jo in two rm and found a very abundant occurrence of this insect in tha 
vicinity. An infestation of ICC per cent was found in one field. 
Illinois 
W. P. Flint (August 26): Wheat jointworm is very abundant in the 
west- central part of the State, in some counties averaging over 14 
per foot of drill row. 
WHEAT STRAWWORM (Har^nli+a grandis Riley) 
Nebraska 
Kansas 
M. H. Swenk (July .10- August l): The wheat crop recently harvested 
was injured 'by the wheat str&wworm in the vicinity of Marion, Red- 
willow County, and the vicin: ;y of Benkelman, Dundy County, and 
possibly in other localities in the southwestern corner of the State 
Elsewhere in the State this injury was not observed. 
J. W. McColloch (August 16): A survey in the northwestern part of 
the State shows a heavy infestation remaining in the stubble. In 
some fields every straw contains at least one larva. The use of 
headers and combines in harvesting leaves most of the insects in 
the field. No definite fi gores are yet available on the loss 
occasioned by this insect. The superintendent of the lays Experi- 
ment Station states that the yield was reduced 50 per cent in some 
fields. 
New York 
Nebraska 
WHEAT SAWFLY SORER (Cephus pygmaeus L. ) 
JJ. E. Ccnnolly (August 2): Rather heavy infestation noted in 
Ontario County. 
COMMON SMUT BEETLE (Phalacrus politus Melsh. ) 
M. H. Swenk (July 10-August l): During the second week in July an 
abundance of the smut beetle was reported from Dawson County* 
