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3ILLBUGS ( Spherophorus spp. ) 
J. J\> Davis (July l6): The billbug injury at De Motte 
questionably attributed to Sphenophorus a equal is Gyll. has 
been investigated by C. R. CI ev eland and the original 
tentative determination verified. Corn injury by billbugs 
was also reported i5n June 23 from Monticello. 
W« H. Eastman (June 23) : Considerable damage is being done 
at Sparta, and in Buffalo, Monroe, and Sauk Counties. 
A. L. Ford and H. C. Severin (July 5)' Several reports with 
specimens have been received. Damage is not serious but 
unusual for this State, Infestations occvjt in Lincoln and 
McCook Counties. We had a wet spring but it has been dry for 
the last two or three weeks. 
CORI'T-SILK BEETLE ( Luperodes varicornis Lee.) 
T. H. Jones (June 22); W. B, Wheel is wrote from Bogulsa on 
June 22: "There is a farmer who lives near the camp* He has 
a young field of corn with velvet beans planted in it. The 
corn is fine- in silk and tassel. The beans have just about 
reached the tops of the corn, and there are millions of these 
beetles feeding on the bean leaves and eating the fresh corn 
silks off; also they are in the tassel. The farmer is very 
much worried and they are really doing lots of damage." Adults 
accompanied the letter, 
WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
W. E. Britton (July 6): Three fields are damaged, two only 
slightly in patches here and there, and one small field is 
50 per cent destroyed at Woodbridge. 
A C ARAB ID ( Bembidion cuadr J na culatura L.) 
G. A. Yeaton through E. M. Patch (June 29): We found hundreds 
of this little black insect. They were apparently feeding on 
the roots of the corn, because whenever we found a wilted stalk 
and dug into the soil they scurried in all directions. We could 
not find anything else around the roots. 
ALFALFA AND CLOVER 
Utah 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( Phytonomus posticus G-yll. ) 
Geo. I. Reeves (June 25): The alfalfa weevil has neglected its 
duties somewhat this season. There has not been enough serious 
damage in Utah to provide material for control experiments. The 
injury became serious just at the last moment before cutting, 
having been retarded, as I believe, by the extremely cold 
weather. The extensions of the weevil territory are slight and 
do not involve any new counties. LIBRARY 
STATE PLANT BOARD 
