-?4- 
Texas F« L. Thomas (l.: a y 10): Adult sugarcane beetles were des- 
troying corn on well drained land which has been in cultiv; I 
many years at College Station. 
A fflBEWOBM (Kor.o - rcoidius liviius De9. ) 
North Carolina J. IT. Tenhet (May 14): A one-eighth acre field of corn slightly 
damaged at Chadbourn. 
CORN BILLBUGS ( Snher.o ononis spp.) 
North Carolina J. IT. Tehnet (May IS): One 10-acre field at Chadbourn damagi 1 
by the curlew bug. S phenophorus calloru- Cliv,, over 50 per cent 
necessitating replanting. Other near-by fields, totaling 25 
or 30 acres, damaged from 10 to 25 per cent, 
Ohio T. H. Parks (May 24): Sphenonhorus zeae .'alsh is destroyin 
fields of corn in several central Ohio counties, Damage is con- 
fined largely to fields in timothy sod last y~.r. Some farmers 
have replanted because of the damage which began about Kay 15, 
Indiana J. J. Davis (Kay 26): During the past week serious losses 
have resulted to corn from the billbu^fSp henophorus zeae i 
Satterthwait det,). The first reports came Kay 18 and have con- 
tinued to date. The localities where heavy infestations occur 
include the following counties, Tippecanoe, Carroll, Boone, 
Clinton, Howard, Tipton, Kadison, Fayette, Wayne, Fountain, Union, 
and Johnson. Specimens '..ere received from ell of tnese coun- 
ties and all were S. zeae . The dying out of clover a ye r 
ago seems to be the indirect cause of this trouble because in 
practically all cases corn- f i Ld Lnfi ste * Ls spring had a 
ivy stand of timothy in 1927 after the clover died out. 
Iowa K. E, Jaques (Kay 29): Billbugs of species 
Snhenophorus parvulu sand S« z ^ae , are causing considerable 
dam I o corn in Henry and Lee Cou' I 
Missouri L. Haseman (Kay 24): A I s have complained 
of billburs the last half of the month in nd no:' 
cari, Calendra zea i isually bructive during the 
1- st half of the month in cent r 1 ana nort . 
Cal : vula Gyll, .... . [ the 
1 . t half of the month in c .• 
CO. I pulic 
Ohio T, B« Par... (. / ): Corn flea beetle) Vi - LlfcoT«j 
young corn and ■ i the 1 
preceded by timothy sod, Some co] t( 
over in some of I I 1 cou.- . . 
in an r. 
