7ARI3GAT2D QlffifOM ( Lycoehotie. margarUosa saucia Hen.) 
0. L. Barnes (August 25): Very abundant and caused severe 
injury to alfalfa, corn, potato, tomato, wheat, and cabbage 
in Navajo and Apache Counties. It also attacked beet, carrot, 
grape , various grasses and ™eeis, and ornamental plants. The 
rorms in almost every case had assumed the army-"orrn habit and 
several areas of alfalfa vers completely eaten. Almost all 
cabbage .observed —as ruined. The worms "/ere reported by the 
county agents to be much more abundant this year than normally. 
YSLLG'.V- STP.IPZD APicYhGHH ( Progenia ornitho^alli Guen.) 
C. L. "Barnes (September 25): Severs injury to young let- 
tuce in one 40-acre and tv:o 25-acre plantings rest of Phoenix 
has been observed. 
CESZAL A IT D F HAGS - CI OP I IT S E C T S 
T. K. Parks and J. S. "leaser (September 34) : Scarce; fev/er 
than for 10 years . Some found in "Butler County. 
eh ?. Flint (September 19): The annual wheat survey made 
by the entomologists of the Natural History Survey and Federal 
Bureau of Entomology cooperating has just been completed. 
The survey this year shows a very marked increase in the Hes- 
sian fly in the central and southern counties. There is also 
an increase in northern Illinois, but it is not so great and 
the infestation in this section is not so heavy as in the cen- 
tral and southern counties. The infestation runs generally 
from 3 to 35 per cent and -'ill average around .1.15 per cent. 
The group of eastern counties shewing heaviest infestation 
last year ear. about the same infestation this year. This in- 
cludes Id^ar, Clark, and Crav-ford Counties. The following 
table sho'vs the percentages of infestation covered by the 
: HAT. Alg CAT 
S 
HSSSIAS 
FLY (rhyto-ohnga des-c rhetor Say) 
County 
C ounty 
Adams 
Bro-. ,: n 
Bureau 
Cass 
9.3 
25.0 
e.O 
...3.5 
3.4 
19.5 
51.0 
Clinton 
Coles 
Cravf ord 
5 eEalb 
Long las 
5dgar 
Pord 
15. £ 
Champaign 
Christian 
Clark 
