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Wayne County, southeastern Mississippi. Infestation stated to be 
general in the vicinity of Grenada, north-central Mississippi. 
Louisiana. L. 0. Ellisor and E. H. Floyd (August): Very abundant on young 
soybeans at Baton Rouge, doing considerable injury to the foliage; also 
feeding on a native grass. 
Indiana. E. V. Walter (August 23): A field of corn at Shelbyville, south- 
eastern Indiana, observed on August 18 to be badly damaged. 
G-. E. Gould (August 25): Found on August 18 on late sweet corn at 
La Fayette. 
Missouri. L. Hasernan (August 2U): Late sweet corn and late field corn found 
to be attached August 15 in various sections of the State, extending from 
the southeast through west-central, central, and northeastern Missouri. 
Apparently destructive in scattered patches over the fields or in 
gardens. Maturing and pupating on August 2k. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryscn (August 25): Abundant and causing injury to corn in 
the eastern part of the State. Most severe damage reported from Chapman, 
where a 40-acre field of late corn is heavily infested. Another report 
of injury received fin Arkansas City. 
Texas. W. S. McGregor (August 22): Reported on corn in Dickens County, 
northwestern Texas. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn.) 
New Hampshire. J. G. Conklin (August 29) • Unusually destructive in southern 
New Hampshire this season. Present in moderate numbers as far north as 
North Conway. 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (August 2^-) : Second brood just now becoming 
' conspicuous. First brood considerably heavier than usual, particularly 
in the southern part of the Connecticut Valley region. In usual abun- 
dance elsewhere. Second-brood larvae observed rather earlier this year 
and found in large numbers the last of July and the first week of 
August. Indications from examination of fields during the egg-laying 
period and at present point to very groat increase over last year's 
attack, particularly in the Connecticut Valley section of western 
Massachusetts. Also in Worcester County. 
Connecticut. N. Turner (August 22): Second-generation eggs and larvae 
present. Infestation in late potatoes unusually heavy in some fields 
in Tolland County. Many reports of larval injury to dahlias, asters, 
and ma.rigolds. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (August 8): In eastern New 
York examination of dahlia plants in a 1-acre planting near Huntington 
showed the crowns of about 10 percent of the plants to be infested with 
first-instar larvae. (August 22): Infestations greatly increased, 
