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Texas TV'C. Bs.roer (August 20) : The sugar-cane borer has been reported 
from several localities as causing considerable dairage to the second 
crop of broom corn. The first cutting was scarcely affected, but 
a great numDer of stems have been bored in the second cutting, caus- 
ing considerable creaking off by the wind. 
New Mexico R. Middleorook (September 13): The loss in the corn crop this year 
in the eastern half of the State caused by the larger corn stalk- 
borer, saccharalis or zeacolella . is estimated at 30 per cent. 
This has become a very serious problem with us since we can not 
practice fall plowing because of the danger of the land blowing 
away and we cannot rotate. 
EUROPE /,N roRN BORER ( Pyrausta nubilalis Kbn.) 
Ohio K. A. Gossard (September 16): Considerable increase in the degree 
of infestation oy this pest has been noted during the past month in 
the infested territory. Two fields have oeen observed which yielded 
as high as 10 per cent of the stalks infested. No definite in- 
dication has yet been found that the insect will be two-brooded 
this season under Ohio conditions. 
YELLOW-BEAR "ATERPILLAR ( Diacrisia v irginica Fab.) 
Washington A. L. Icelander (September 7): Yellow-oear caterpillars have recent- 
ly Deen sent from Seattle as injuring a field of sweet corn. Accord- 
ing to G. T. \7alisteed, who furnished the specimens, "The cater- 
pillars eat off the silk and sometimes part cf the young tips of 
the ear. Usually when the silk is eaten off they migrate to another 
ear." This is a new record with us. 
^ORK-SILK BEETLE ( Lut> erode s varicornis Lee.) 
Alaoama' XJ. E. Hinds (August 25): The ccrn-silk beetle has oeen reported 
from several localities this season. Especially serious damage 
was done in Tuscaloosa County, 
EELTED rU n U?T3FR-BEETLE (Diab rotica balteata Lee) 
Louisiana Bureau of Entomology Monthly News Letter No. 112: C. E. Smith 
reports that ccnsideiable injury has been done to corn in Louisiana 
by the belted cucumber-beetle. This insect, in destroying the silk 
of the corn ear, has retarded pollination, and in seme fields a 
large number of poorly developed ears were noted. Similar injury 
has previously oeen noted as being caur-ed by the beetle of the 
western corn rootworm, Diabrotica lcn ?icornis Say, but this is the 
first instance in which such injury has been found to be due to the 
attack of D. balteata. 
