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Ohio. T. H. Parks (September 15): Chinch bugs are very abundant in many corn- 
fields of northwestern Ohio. The second generation is now from one- half to 
full grown and lias caused some injury. We now have a population capable of 
doing very serious damage next year unless controlled. 
Illinois. M. D. Farrar. (September): The chinch bug is moderately abundant in 
central Illinois but above normal for this area. 
J. H. Bigger (September); .Chinch bugs are very abundant. A chinch bug survey, 
September 1 to 10, indicates area of danger to next -"-ear's crops in all the 
central portion of Illinois andaconsiderable area on the western border of 
State, with possible danger of infestation in area between. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (September 27); Chinch bugs in Pepin, Buffalo, Pierce, 
and Trempealeau Counties proved to be serious for the first time in many years 
and continued until the corn was cut for the silo. 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (September); Chinch bugs have been much in evidence in south- 
ern Iowa all summer and seem to threaten serious danger for next ~ r ear. 
Nebraska, M. H. Swenk (September 20): The chinch bug is moderately abi-.ndant in 
southeastern Nebraska. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (September 21); The second generation was quite abundant in 
fields in south-central and eastern Kansas. Injury to sorghums was very much 
in evidence during August through Butler, Greenwood, Chase, Allen, Lyon, 
Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, and Miami Counties. The extremely dry weather in 
Butler County aided the bugs in their destruction. Chinch bugs of the second 
generation killed out a few of the more susceptible varieties of sorghums in 
the sorghum breeding nursery at the college farm this summer. A correspond- 
ence report from Hazelton, Barber County, also records chinch bugs injuring 
kaf ir. 
C0R1I LEAF APHID ( Aphis maidis Fitch) 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (August 25); A very heavy infestation is now 
present on late corn at Chadbourn, attracting large numbers of Diptera and 
Hymenoptera on these plants. In some instances the leaves and stems of the 
corn plants are completely covered with aphid s. This, no doubt, will somewhat 
reduce the yield of grain on the infested plants. 
SAY'S STINK BUG ( Chlorochroa sayi Stal) 
New Mexico. J. R. Ever (September 1); A recently reported pest is the grain bug 
( Chlorochroa sayi ) which lias appeared all over the State and is particularly 
injurious to kafir corn in western New Mexico. 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( Hypera postica Gyll. ) 
Utah. C. J. Sorenson (Season 1931 and 1932); Seven years ago the alfalfa weevil 
was practically unknown in the Uintah Basin. Since 1925 it has gradually spread 
and increased until practical^ every alfalfa field suffered considerable damage 
in 1932. The first serious damage for the Basin as a whole occurred in 1931. 
