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CORN ROOT WORM ( Diabrotica lon^icornis Say) 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles (August 22): The western corn root worn was re- 
ported as doing damage at Willnar, Kandiyohi County. 
COWPEAS 
PEA APHID ( Illinoia pisi Kalt.) 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (July 23): Aphids were very abundant on and caused 
considerable damage to field peas at Fort Valley during the latter 
part of July. 
MEALYBUGS ( Pseudococcus sp.) 
Georgia. J. R. Thomson, Jr. (July 23): Mealybugs are more abundant than 
usual on field peas and other plants at Port Valley. 
GRASS 
SOD WE3W0RMS (Cranbus spp.) 
Kentucky. M. L. Didlake (August 2U): Second-brood adults are more numerous 
than at any time this season — August 5 to 20 — at Lexington. 
California. J. C. Elmore (August 18): The sod webworm has become very des- 
tructive to new lawns in the San Gabriel Valley. The population 
ranges from 5 to 10 per square foot. All new lawns in this area are 
affected. 
CHINCH BUG (Blissus hirtus Montd. ) 
Rhode Island. A. E. Stene (August 26): Por the first time in 25 years the 
chinch bug has been sent into the office with a complaint that it is 
destructive to grassland. Not commonly present in injurious numbers 
in Rhode Island. 
CROTALARIA 
BELLA MOTH (Utetheisa bella L.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (August 13): Larvae are appearing in large 
numbers on Crotalaria at Crossville. 
SUGARCANE 
TERMITES (isoptera) 
Louisiana. B. A. Osterberger (August 3): About 60 percent of the stalks 
in a low spot in a sugarcane field at Anchorage, West Baton Rouge 
Parish, were damaged by termites. The feeding was near the surface of 
the ground and in some instances the entire pith was destroyed. . 
