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LESSSR CLOVER LEAJT WEEHL ( Fhytonomus nigrimstris Fab.) 
Illinois J. H. Bigger (June 17): Counts in western Illinois, May 25 
to 28, indicate from 7 to 8 per cent loss of the first hay 
cr^m and 25 -per cent less of the first seed crop. 
3>:.i3Tte!D FLEA BEETLE (Sy stena hudsonias Eorst.) 
Virginia C. R. Willey (June 1): K T7e had 5 acres of Korean Lcspedeza — 
a lovely stand — nov nearly 2 acres are gone." This is the 
first time we have had a co-mlaint of an insect damaging 
Lcspedeza. 
PEA. APHI D ( Illinoia nisi Kai t . ) 
Kentucky 7. A. Price (May 23): Aphids arc so numerous on alfalfa at 
Lexington that one's shoes become shotted with hor.cydev. 
North Dakota J. A. Munro (June 18):.- Large fields of sweet clever in Cass 
County h.^ve "been practically ruined by the pea aphid thi'a sea- 
son.' This is the first ti-ne that aphid injury to sweet clover 
in North Dakota has been noticed. Farmers are plowing under 
the infested fields. Recent reports indicate that the infesta- 
tion is more widely distributed. I had a report that a. large 
number of fields in Traill County are badly damaged by the pest. 
Iowa C. J. Drake (June 22): Extremely abundant throughout the 
State, especially in alfalfa fields. In the small pea-growing 
district it has been doing considerable damage. 
Oregon L. P. Rockwood (June 4): Aphids decreased slowly in May. The 
reduction was due principally to the work of syrphid larvae. 
Aphids were fron 20 to 25 per cent alates May 23. Aphids in- 
creased after May 15 on these crops much more rapidly on the 
peas thou on the vetch. Vetch and -^eas arc now too far along 
to be appreciably injured. 
GRASS. 
TKRIPS (Thysanoptera) 
Missouri L. Ha soman (June 20): The so-called oat bug r>r oat thrips 
( Ana-nhothri-ps ob scums Mull.) has been very abundant in the air 
in central Missouri for the past week, June 16-23. 
Nebraska M. H. Swcnk (Juno 1 to 20): In Dourlns County blucgrass grown 
for seed was heavily and injuriously infested with ny-.r-hnl thrip 
of the species A. ob so or us and Thri-s t abaci Lind. during the 
second week in June. 
