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some of the southern counties as high as 50 per cent of all wheat 
culms were infested. In the northwest central counties 5 to 18 
per cent. Farasitism wa3 lower than last. year. 
' WESTERN' WHEAT • STBS MAGGOT ( Evlcmyia cereal is Gill. ) 
M. H. Swenk (July 25 to August 25): Some belated reports indicate 
more extensive damage during June by the western wheats-stem maggot 
than. was indicated in my report of June 25. 
A WHITE GRUB (Phyllo^haga lanc eolata Say) 
J. W. McColloch (August 19): The grubs of this beetle are very 
abundant in»a 30-acre field which is being prepared for wheat. 
They destroyed the wheat on this ground last year. 
CORN. 
BUMBLE FLOWER BEETLE (Euphoria inda L. ) 
J. W. McColloch (August 7): The adults are rather common in sweet 
corn about Manhattan. In some truck gardens they are causing in- 
jury by burrowing into the tips of the ears. 
LESSER CORN STALK BOR"ER ( Elasr.oTssl pus 1 i gno s el lus Zell.) 
A. M. Vance and G. W. Underhill (August 10): In our plats of field 
corn planted June 12, 28 per cent of the plants were infested by 
this insect, and as a result of the typical killing of the buds, 
such infested plants will produce no corn. Infestation in several 
near-by fields of late corn ran somewhat lighter, averaging slightly 
over 6 per cent. Moths of the ^second brocd have been in the field 
for several weeks. 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus leucor^terus Say) 
T. H. Parks (August 19): With the best prospects for a corn crop 
this State has had in years in northwestern counties, the chinch 
bug is scattered through the ccrn and making very little impression 
upon it. No damage will come from the second brood. 
W. P. Flint (August 18): The weather of late July and the first 
part of August has continued favorable to chinch-bug development, 
whereas practically no damage rill occur from the second- brood 
bugs this year. Apparently sufficient numbers of bugs will go 
into winter quarters in many sections of the State to cause some 
injury next season. 
M. H. Swenk (July 25 to August 25): Although the migration of the 
chinch bugs (Blissus leucopte^us) from the small grains into the 
corn crops was largely over by July 10, and most of the bugs had 
gained their wings a few days later, there were some reports of 
