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corn root norm (D. virgif era Lee.,, of the Ne jxico corn 
root worm (D. filic.Ornls Horn), and of the western corn root. worm 
(D. longic ornis Say) -ere plentiful in and about the corn- 
fields m the heavily infested area in southwestern Nebraska, 
which includes Redwillow, Hitchcock, Dundy, and the southern 
parts of Frontier and Chase Counties, until well into October, 
A campaign urging a general rotation of all fields that were 
in corn this year is no-; being put on, beginning with a 
fanners' tour of inspection of the damaged fields around 
McCook on October 17. 
SOUTHERN CORK STALK BORER (Diatraea seacolclla Dyar) 
North Carolina 
C. H. Brannon (October 22): Very severe infestation on 
corn on State Hospital fano at Goldsboro, Wayne County. 
SOY BEANS 
VELVETBSAN CATERPILLAR C Anticarsia genmatilis Hbru ) 
Louisiana 
'.V. A. Douglas (October 2): The velvetbean caterpillars 
have not been found so far vest ~.s they were in 1929. 
Examinations have been made as far west as Nome, Tex., which 
is about 20 miles vest of 3eaumont, but no injury was found 
west of Crowley, La., along the Southern Pacific Railroad. 
Along this line, Nome marked the western limit of infestation 
last year; while this year the infestation ends at Crowley, 
North of Crowley, the infestation has been traced as far as 
Colfax, northwest of Alexandria, but the northern limit was 
not reached. Injury to soy beans is severe from Crowley to 
Colfax and near Lafayette and Jeanerette. The fungous disease 
Botrytis rileyi has been noted in several fields. 
Cuba 
U. C. Loftin (October 14): I noticed some of the velvet- 
bean caterpillars about the first of September and today I 
saw full-grown larvae feeding on the same bean plrnts. The 
infestation here has been very light this summer. Doubtless 
they are already in the United States before now. 
COY/PEA CURCULIO (Chalcodermus eneus Boh. ) 
Alabama 
J. M. Robinson (October 20) 
abundant in Auburn. 
The cowpea curculio is v:ry 
BEAN LEAF BEETLE (Cerotoma trifurcata Forst.) 
Louisi-n^ 
■» r . S. Hinds (October 29): Cerotonr trifurc-t-. Forst. has 
been very abundant on soy betns nd cowpeas and appears to have 
been quite largely responsible for preventing the setting of 
pods on cowpeas. 
