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lowa C, N. Ainslie (August 6): Potato diggers at Sioux City report 
many -vhite grubs in the ground this suaner doing some damage to the 
tubers. These grubs are of two sizes, cbout full-grown and v<sry 
small, the latter probably from eggs laid this year. The beetles 
were only moderately numerous in the early spring, 
AN ANOMALA (Ancm&la flavipcnnis Burm, ) 
Alabama J» M. Robinson (August 6): Across the northern part of the State 
south of the Tennessee River an approach to !i entomophobia" has been 
"brought about in several communities because of the fright caused 
by the activities of Anomala flavioennis . These insects have been 
so abundant and so noisy with their flight that it has frightened 
several communities at night, 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
Florida F« S. Chamberlin (August 11): Outivorms (various species) ere causing 
a little trouble at the present time in Gadsden County. No instance 
has been observed where poisoned* bait applications have been needed, 
Wisconsin S, B« Fracker (August 15) » Cutworms were reported as generally 
destructive over the greater part of the State, reports of damage 
running from 5 to as high as 50 ter cent of the truck crops. They 
were the outstanding pests of the season, but were less serious 
than during the two preceding years 
Iowa C, J, Drake (August 20): Cutworms (several species) have been over- 
abundant in Iora this year. In the early spring the damage was very 
extensive in gardens, truck fields, and cornfields. 
WIR3W0RKS (materidae) 
Wisconsin S, B. Fracker (August 15) : Some damage has been done to corn in 
Dane and La Fayette Counties in the southern part of the State, 
Montana J« R. Porker (August 10): Wire-Terms ( Limonius sp. )are doing quite 
extensive injury to potatoes at Three Forks. Thirty acres had to be 
replanted last spring "because of injury to- the seed pieces, as many 
as 10 or 15 wireworas having been found in one piece of potato. They 
are still present in the field, one of them now and then having trans- 
formed to the pupa. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE-CROP INSECTS 
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HESSIAN FLY ( Phytonhag a, destructor Say) 
New York C* R» Crosby and assistants: The annual Hessian -fly survey has 
been completed in llei York, The percentage of infestation is high 
enough in a number of counties to make it advisable for growers to 
