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greens at Des Moines, Boone, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, and other cities. 
Pasture fields have "been greatly injured. They also did considerable 
damage to corn in the spring, and in the northern part of the State web- 
worms are doing a considerable amount of damage to corn planted ©rr 
government land leased for forage purposes. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (August 24) : Moths in considerable numbers were on 
the wing during the hottest period of the drought, end at this time we 
are getting complaints of. nearly full-fed larvae in golf greens. 
Nebraska, M. H. Swenk (August 15): A Clay County correspondent reported 
that his previously beautiful lawn had been about destroyed daring the 
first half of August by sod webworms, aided by attacks of a leafhopper 
identified as Deltocephalus inimicus Say. He reports that the birds 
did good service by digging out the webworms from the dead, "brown sod. 
WHITE-LIMED -SPHINX ( Sphinx lineata Tab.) 
iowa, G-. C. Decker (August IP) : We have numerous reports of larvae migrat- 
ing from weed patches and stubble fields into soybeans and corn. One 
soybean field near Webster. City v/as reported destroyed. Associated with 
the sphinx were a moderate - number of Prodenia ornithogalli Guen. 
C. II. Ainslio (August 22); The larvae are present everywhere this 
year, and only by continuous watching and hand-picking can serious injury 
be prevented. 
•• JAPANESE BEETLE (Popillia japonic a Newm. ■) 
Connecticut. W. E. Britton (August 23): The Japanese beetle is apparently 
more abundant in the cities and towns than in preceding seasons. It is 
not yet commonly seen in the open country of Connecticut. 
CEREAL AND EPftAG-E-CRrp INSECTS 
WHEAT 
HESSIAN FLY (p hytophaga destructor Say) 
Missouri. L. Haseman- (August 24): J. R. Horton reports a 2-pcrccnt stubble 
infestation in northwestern Missouri; 11 percent in the west-central part; 
14 percent in the. southwest; 21" percent in the southeast; and IP percent 
in the east-contral part. One limited stubble survey in northeastern 
Missouri indicates a stubble infestation of only 1 to 2 percent, with 
'practically every flaxseed examined dead, due, we believe, to the exces- 
sive heat. Limited counts at Columbia shov/ed Iff percent mortality of 
•jeseeds, with temperatures at the surface of the soil as high as 1^7° E. 
and no vegetation in wheat stubble fields to shade the stubble and flax- 
seeds, which had weeks of abnormally high temperatures to endure. 
New York. W. E. Blauvclt (August 13): The percentage of wheat, infested by 
the hesoian f',.;/ was determined by examining 25 culms from each sample: 
