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Ono new spot of infestation has appeared on Long Island close to 
the commercial sweet corn, center, and a series of infestations has 
developed along the south shore of Connecticut in the towns of 
Bridgeport, West Haven, Old Lyme, New London, and Stonington. 
The Canadian situation, which last year seerred to be fairly well 
in hand, has oroken out with renewed intensity, and the principal 
dent corn growing areas in Essex, and Kent Counties, Ontario, are 
now so seriously infested as to cause considerable commercial injury, 
The prevalence of moisture,, heavy dews, and high humidity during the 
incubation of the eggs and during the early or first instar stage 
of the larvae apparently caused very little mortality of the e^js 
and permitted large numbers of the larvae to become established in 
tne tassels, leaves, stalks, and ears of the corn plants. 
In Massachusetts there has been not only a very marked decrease 
in the intensity of infestation, but also very little spread in the 
infestation. This decrease apparently is due principally to the 
adverse climatic conditions which prevailed during the summer of 
1923. The thorough cleanup of fields, gardens, and small weed 
areas and the fall plowing of practically 90 per cent of the culti- 
vated fields probably also contributed considerably to the decrease 
in the infestation. In eastern New York the infestation remains 
about the same, that is, there has Deen very little spread and very 
little increase in the intensity of the infestation. 
A FLOWER BEETLE ( Euphoria sepulchrali s Fab.) 
Illinois W. P. Flint (October 20): Adults of this insect have been reported 
causing severe injury to corn in a numoer cf fields in southern 
Illinois-. 
CHINCH BUG ( Bliss u s leucopterus Say) 
Kansas J. W, McColloch (September 29): A farmer at Logan, Kans . , reports 
that he planted 300 acres of wheat on Sudan grass stuoble and the 
chinch bugs have taken all of it. (Octooer 16): Rain in many 
parts of the State prevented sericus damage to corn and sorghums 
outside of that occurring at the time of migration from the small 
grains. Bugs are still abundant, however, and the air has been 
full of adults flying to the grassland for hibernation. 
CORN EJOTTOHI (H el.iothis obsoleta Fab.) 
GENERAL F. C. Bishopp (September 30): Both early and late field corn ex- 
amined during the first part of September in the States of Georgia, 
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana were found to be heavily infest- 
ed with the corn earwonn- Counts showed 90 to 200 per cent of the 
ears infested. Inmost fields the percentage ran about 99. 
CUTHOPTS (Noctuidae) 
Wisconsin S. B. Fracker: Reported from Adams, Chippewa, Clark, Dane, LaCross^ 
?'arquette, Vernon, and Winnebago Counties. 
