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SUGARCANE BEETLE (Euetheola rugiceps Lee . ) 
Uorth Carolina. C. H. Brannon (June 13): The rough-headed corn stalk beetle 
is causing rather serious damage to corn in Currituck County. 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (June 5)? An upland field of 5 acres of corn at Exper- 
iment has been damaged 75 percent. Beetles have apparently left the 
field but have just begun to injure nearby bottonwland corn that is 2 
weeks old. 
Tennessee. Gr. M, Bentley (June 11): Adult beetles are doing serious damage 
in several cornfields in the central part of Tennessee. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (June 20): Reported as damaging young corn about 
knee high at Ranburne, in Cleburne County. 
SOUTHERN CORK ROOT WORM ( Diabrotica duodecimpunctata Fab. ) 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (June 22): The southern corn root worm has extensively 
damaged corn in sections of central and western Kentucky. 
North Carolina. C. H. Brannon (June 20): Root worm damage to young corn is 
very prevalent in eastern North Carolina. Several fields in the mountains 
in Macon County are also badly damaged. 
A CORN SILK BEETLE ( Luperodes varicomis Lee . ) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (June 22): Considerable damage to ears of corn by the 
corn silk beetle was reported by inspector IT. D. Peets of Bogue Chitto on 
June 18 and by a correspondent at Waynesboro on the same date. 
CORN BILL3UGS ( Calondra spp.) 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (June 2^): Several species of corn billbugs have damaged 
a few fields of corn in Monona, Harrison, and Fremont Counties. The 
clay-colored billbug (C. aequalis Gyll.) is doing some damage in wheat 
fields in Fremont County. The "adults were feeding on the kernels of grain 
and in one large field about l|- rods of wheat along one side (80 rods long] 
had been almost totally destroyed. In an adjoining cornfield this and 
another species of billbug were injuring corn, 
CORN BLOTCH LEAF MINER ( Agromyza parvicornis Loew) 
North Carolina. R. W. Leiby (June 19): Fields of corn have been completely 
ruined in parts of Hyde, Tyrrell, and Beaufort Counties by the corn blotcl. 
leaf miner. Many fields have been plowed up and planted in soybeans. 
The last serious outbreak in this part of the State v/as in 1919 . 
