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About 80 "De:* cent, of the hoppers '"ere rrature. T" ie hooec 1 frcT the c e obser- 
vations that -e ^ill have lees trouble in locating eggs during our fall 
surve^ this year than was the case in the oast survey. 
Idaho. C. lakeland (October 23)j The ^rasshomer egg survey Is shout two- 
thirds coiroleted. Efegs are very scarce in all corrrunitiec surveyed to 
date and entirely absent in cany. 
MORMON CRICKET f Anabrus sjtt oI e^ Hald. ) 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (October 22): Found in northeastern oart of !A3ntrail 
County at the rate of one oer 3 souare yards in ranye land. 
Idaho. C. lakeland (October 23) : TCe recently trade a trio f o the area ^here 
fiord ins vil 1 oti Rosa wac found infesting A. siimlex last July. Male and 
ferrale neTatodes —ere found in irasses under overhanging hanks along small 
strearrs and a. fe ,_T -ere observed in the -ater. Morron cricket eg^s are 
abundant over rruch of the area, where outbreaks occurred this year and it 
is orobable that the infestation in 1936 "ill be even Greater than in 1935. 
More of their have ovioosited on agricultural land than heretofore. 
PLANT PUGS (Pentatorridae) 
California. S. Lock^ood (October 2): Cotton, barley, peaches, and figs in 
the San Joacuin Valley have been darra^red by one or all of the following 
plant buys: Say's olant buy ( Chlorochroa sayi Stahl); the red- shouldered 
plant bug ( Thyanta brevis Van D. ); and the ^reen soldier bug ( Acrosternur 
hilar is Say). The ^orst darrage to reaches has been caused by the ~reen 
soldier bus. The other three soecies mentioned, '"ere responsible for irost 
of the daTaye to cotton and barley. 
FALL ARVYTORM ( Laohy^ra " frugioerda S. & A. ) 
California. H. H. Keifer ^October 24): The collection of a single adult in a 
light trao near Chula Vista, San Diego County, on Seotenrber 26 indicates 
the Tesence of this insect in the State for the third year. During the 
other 2 years. 1231 and. 1934, its oresence "-as noted by the injur''' it 
caused to corn. So far as —e know there was no coTTercial damage to corn 
in California in 1935. The species is no™ presumably established in the 
agricultural district contiguous to the Gulf of lo-er California, where it 
can overwinter and invade California durin? the warr weather. This condi- 
tion, according to available records, is a coToaratively recent develoonrent 
LESSER COPN STALK BORER ( ElPsTOoalouq ll^rnosellus Zell. ) 
Alabarra. J. M« Robinson (October 23): The lesser corn stalk borer -as re- 
ported fron- Camp Hill, Tallapoosa County, where it was destroying kudzu 
seedlings. 
TiITE GRUBS ( phylio--»ha£-a son. ) 
Vermont . " T . L. Bailey (October 23): Reports confnue to arrive of serious 
injury to ootato tubers b: white ,T rubs. Rutland, Chittenden, Franklin, 
