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Kansas 
J. W. McColloch (October 8): Corn plants sent in from Liberal 
ware badly inured by the fail armyworm. The leaves had been 
destroyed and the -.-/onus were working in the ears and stalks. 
T3H |AT 
iiddle Atlantic 
States 
.ansas 
;ns&-: 
RUSSIAN FLY ( Phytcohaga destructor Say) 
0. C. Hill and H. D. Smith (October 3): Hessian-fly surve-s made 
this summer show more fly infestation in the eastern wheat-growing 
area than there has been for some years past. Records of percent- 
age of infestation were based on culms. The follc-ing summary 
shows the average infestation per county cf the States under surve- 
1927 
192o 
State 
: Bomber cf 
' Infestation 
: number of 
: Infestation 
counties 
: per county, 
: counties 
: per county,* 
: per cent . 
' :per cent . 
Penna .... 
: 21 
: 33 
: 21 
: 1 
Del : 
1 : 
10 
21 
■ s 
. o 

1 
ft t_ 
11 : 
: 2o : 
■ 
1 
W.Va : 
2 • 
51 : 
o : 

J. ST. HcColloch (October 20) { A survey made during early October 
shows the fly abundant in the south -central pari of the State, 
also one infestation in 'Thomas County. 
FLAIL'S FALSE '.7IEL70R;: ( 51 codes opaca Say) 
J. 7T. HcColloch (September 25): TJlieat is being destroyed before 
germination at Piercoville and Garden City. 
ccn:: 
SUROHSAN CORN BORER ( Pyra usta nubilr.lis Hubn. ) 
General Monthly Letter, Bureau of Entomology, Nb. l6l, (September, 1927): 
stav^men't ^ summer shipment of 30*200 Fyr au s t a r.ub i 1 a 1 i s chry sal ids, parasi- 
tised by ?r. eogenjF alanif rens T;esm. and 7.5^0 cocoons of Dioctes 
wanc toria Roman vf.s made on Aagust 9 from Genoa, Italy, by the 
European parasite laboratory at Hyercs, Tar. France. These para- 
sites were collected by Lr. H. L. Parker at Bergamo, in Lombardy, 
lotal shipments of Pyrausta parasites from Europe to this country 
for the; last fiscal year wire Zulimn ria crassifomar Thorn. , ^4-7 , "$Uc : 
Zioctes -pv.nctoric. , .U,.?.09; ha si cere, senilis Rond. , 1,652; 
Hi c: Ifi gagt or ti bialis ":7ces, "_co,722; and Phaeogenes plani xrons . 
