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Some were leaf feeding. One pod found with an egg and a small grub. None 
on cotton. at F6rt Valley, central Georgia, which was infested. May 27« The 
stand was cut less than 5 $» n °t 20 $, -as I reported in the Insect Pest 
Survey Bulletin, June 1937 (vol. 17, no. H, p. 191). At Experiment, cen- 
tral Georgia, adults have "been slow appearing on cowpeas hut are now 
moderately abundant. As yet there are no pods for them to infest. 
SORGHUM 
'"/ ,'. THIEF ANT ( Solenopsis molesta Say) 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (June 26): On May 27 the Kafir ant (S. molesta Say) was 
.reported as destroying planted kafir seed in Douglas and Wahunsee Counties, 
in east-central Kansas. 
California. C. C. Wilson (June 3): In. May an unusual infestation-occurred 
near.. Wheatland, in Yuba County in. the Sacramento Valley, where this ant 
.'" '"■.. was noted as a pest of milo maize. Two' consecutive plantings of seed 
on 110 acres have been destroyed. Soil examinations were made and the 
number of ants ranged from 10 to US per 2§- feet of drill row. 
"' '""' ^ VETCH • 
, VETCH BRUCHID ( Bruchu s brachial is Fahraeus) 
North Carolina. L. J. Bottimer (June 26): On May 2 the writer collected 
several adults on flowers of Vicia villosa at Princeville in Edgecombe 
County, ahd one 'on the same host plant at Scotland Neck in Halifax 
County. These collections add two new counties to the infested area 
of the State. 
SUGARCANE 
SUGARCANE BORER ( Diatrae a saccharalis F. ) 
Louisiana. : B. A. Osterberger (June 25) ' The sugarcane borer infestation in 
'• the Lafourche section of southern Louisiana in the corn, ranges from U5 
percent to nothing, with an average of 10 percent; 3^*3 percent of the 
egg^ collected parasitized by Trichogramma sp. 
L. 0. Ellisor (June 25) ' Examination of sugarcane in West Baton 
Rouge Parish during the last 2 weeks showed that in some fields as high 
as 5 percent of the plants were damaged by the first generation. This 
represents -an average of about 1,700 borers per acre. On June 25» ll6 
masses of eggs were collected in a field of corn. Of these 6l percent 
were either wholly or partly parasitized by T. minutum Riley. No para- 
sites have been released in this field. 
Texas. P. L. Thomas (June 22): TJ, saccharalis found in cornstalks throughout 
May in Galveston County. 
