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most of them in fields which have "been in sweet clover for two 
years. On April 25 another correspondent from the same town 
sent in specimens of these beetle's with the statement that they 
were causing damage to corn. 
SEED- COM MAGGOT (Kylemyla cilicrura Rond. ) 
H. A. Gossard (May 22): The seed-corn maggot is very numerous 
and is very injurious all over the State. 
ST. P. Flint (May 22):' A few reports of injury about this insect, 
accompanied by specimens, have come in. 
BILLKJGS ( Sphenophorus spp. ) 
J. J. Davis (May 18): Two Sphenophorus zeae beetles to nearly 
every hill of corn. The corn is 1 to 2 inches high. They work 
on the stalks below the surface of the ground and kill the plant. 
Present indications are that they will destroy a 25-acre field. 
Specimens were submitted. 
J. W. McColloch (ISsiy 22): The maize billbugs have been found in 
cornfields at Junction City and Ogden, in numbers sufficient to 
cause injury to the crop. This is the first time that this in- 
sect has proved troublesome in this part of the State. 
WISEPOBMS (ELateridae) 
J. J. Davis (May 25): Wireworms were reported May 21 from Orestes 
where they are destroying com in the bottom lands. 
J. W. McColloch (May 21): Reports of wireworm injury to corn are 
just beginning to come in from Brown , Riley, and Sumner Counties. 
Abundance as compared with an average year seems to he about the 
same . 
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ALFALFA AMD CLOVER 
PEA £PHID ( Illinois nisi Kalt. ) 
B. H. balden (May 14-20): Abundance this year much more on alfalfa 
in Hartford, New Haven, and Middlesex Counties. The infestation 
is worse where the plants suffered from dry weather in 1924 and 
where the plants were slow in starting this spring, due to poor 
drainage. From 75 to 90 per cent of the plants were "badly in- 
jured. An owner in East Windsor plowed his alfalfa under to 
plant corn. At ITorth Branford and West Simshury many aphids 
were killed by Empusa. 
R. H. Pettit (May 14): The pea aphid is reported as being very 
plentiful in some alfalfa fields. 
J. J. Davis (April 30): Reports were received of injury to alfalfa 
by thisinsect on April 28 and 29, from Decatur, LaPorte, and Knox. 
