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SOUTHERN CORN STALK BORER ( Diatraea crambidoides Grote) 
South Carolina. 0. L. Cartwright (May 22): Adults arc emerging In numbers at 
Qlemson College. 
CORN BILLBUGS ( Calendra spp. ) 
South Carolina. 0. L. Cartwright (May 22): Corn billbugs (C. cariosus Oliv. ) 
are causing much injury at Florence. 
Florida. J. R. Watson (Hay 26): The billbug is causing considerable damage to 
corn in various parts of the State, mostly northern counties. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (May 20): Corn billbugs are abundant on corn at One- 
onta and Troy. 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica duodecimnunctata Fab. ) 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (May 18): Young cucumbers at Fort Valley have been badly 
damaged. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (May 25): The first adults of the year were seen on May 
.10. They are quite numerous at. Manhattan in alfalfa and in clumps of vol- 
unteer corn. 
Louisiana. C. S. Smith and F. K. Harrison (April 27): At Baton Rouge corn 
has received from slight to very severe damage by the larva. 'The injury 
was especially severe, amounting to 80 per cent or more of the stand, to 
corn planted March 27 on land following winter vetch which was plowed under 
immediately preceding the planting of the corn. The major portion of the 
injury- occurred during the period from April 8 to 20, and some is still 
in progress. The first young spring-brood beetles were observed in the 
field at Baton Rouge on April 12. 
Texas. P. E. t gL.etcheg?-_. (.April 27): Earliest planted corn was very seriously 
injured at /College -Station. 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( H.ypera pootica Gyll . ) 
California. A. S. Michelbacher (May 19): The alfalfa weevil is very abundant 
in the Fleasanton area. Count p- of several hundred (300 to 800) are being 
taken per 100 sweeps on the second crop, which is from one-auarter to one- 
half ■ grown. In the Niles area the weevil can be collected with ease and 
the number of larvae and adults taken per 100 sweeps ranges around 100. 
In the Tracy area, as a general thing, only a few individuals can be col- 
lected per 100 sweeps. Of the adults collected in all three regions, the 
greatest percentage ?re of the spring generation. Larvae in all stages may 
be found in the fields at the present time. 
