Alabama 
Mississippi 
Vermont 
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J. M. Robinson (j\uie s 20): The sugarcane beetle is very abun- 
dant on corn in Auburn, on cane in Vincent and Trafford, and 
on corn in Montgomery, Ashland, and Keflin. 
C. Lyle (June 23): Young corn plants injured were received 
from G-loster on May 29 and from Michigan City on June 22. 
CORN: BIL13UG-S ( Calendra spp. ) 
H. L. Bailey "(June 25) i ; Billbugs "Were found unusually abun- 
dant in a lar ; >;e cornfield at North Hartland, June 2. The 
corn plants were badly damaged. Also reported from Chester; 
North Dakota J. A. Munro (June 18) : On June 8 a specimen of the clay- 
colored billbug (C. aequalis Gyll.) was received from Lidger- 
wood. In the letter accompanying the specimen was the state- 
ment, "I' found this insect -with a "half Nelson on a chick's 
beak. It had him groggy " On June 14 a specimen was 
received from Cooperstown, with a letter stating that the 
beetle was clamped on a chick's beak and would have strangled 
the chick if the beetle had not been removed. These are the 
..first reports of injury to "chicks' received by this office 
since the sum.ier of 1926. (June 20): I just received a letter 
from NeW Salem, accompanied ^oi T several specimens of the clay- 
colored billbug. "These insects were found attached to the 
throat of some chickens. I understand that some farmers lost 
a few chickens. You can hardly pull them loose after they are 
• attached. " "" .-..' "':."".. 
Nebraska 
Indiana 
M. H. Swcnk (April 20 to June 1); A Richardson County farmer 
reported during the third week in U&y that for the second suc- 
cessive year corn billbug: s (C. parvulus Gfcrll. and C. melano- 
cephalus Fab. ) had injured his field of Tr oung corn. 
GRAPE COLASPIS ( Colaspis brunnea Fab. ) 
J. J. Davis (June 27); The clover white grub (C. bruimea ) 
destroyed half of a 30-acre field of corn near WilliaT.sport. 
CORN FLEA 3EETLF ( Chaetocnema pulicaria Melsh. ) 
Maryland 
Kentucky 
Ohio 
E. N. Cory (June 23): C. pulicari a is ver?' abundant on corn 
in western Maryland. 
W. A. Price (May 25): Flea beetles were reported on corn at 
Paris, Lexington, and Winchester. (June 25): Flea beetles 
have been abundant on Corn- at Lexington, Owingsville, and 
Louisville. They continue to be prevalent on tobacco over the 
State generally. 
A FLEA BEETLE (Systena taeniata Say) 
T. H. Parks (Juno 22): A field of corn near G-rove City, 
Franklin County, was destroyed by S. blanda this month. Other spe« 
