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was Quito serious. The trouble was most prevalent in thi arc 
from Clay and Hamilton Counties north to Merrick and Valley 
Counties , 
Kansas J» '=7, McColloch (June 26): Corn is being Injured by wire- 
worms on a farm at Oswego* Damage has occurred for several years, 
JAPANESE BEETIE ( PopUlia iaoonica Newm. ) 
Nov? Jersey and Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology No. 170, June, 
Pennsylvania 1928: At the present time fiv_ species of Oriental parasites 
of the Japanese hectic are . jlished in Net! Jersey, there 
being two species of Tiphia and one each of Centater, r.:-:ie, 
and Prcsena, Tiohia vcrnalis was recently rscov^r^d for the 
first time from a colony that was established two years ago. 
The same species has been recovered from three coloni ; tab- 
lished last year. Dexia. ventralis has been recovered in both 
this year and last year, from the first colony establish 
Twenty-three thousand Tiphia cocoons have been received this y:ar 
from India, and a shipment of 3,000 adult T iphia vcrnalis from 
Japan arrived in good condition, with 42 per cent alive* Pil 
thousand Prosena , sibirita rrere r.c.ived from Japan on parastir 
grubs. The larval surveys conducted during the late spring and 
early summer of the present year at numerous stations within 
the heavily infested area indicate a marked reduction of Japanese 
beetle population at all stations where the beetle has been Ion; 
established, and a decided increase in the newer rtations. 
CEREAL AND F R A Cr 2- C R P I I" S E C T S 
ffKEAT AND OATS 
Ohio 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytoohaga destructor Say) 
T # H» Parks (July 21): The survey just conr in Ohio 
this year shows Here ion fly less abundant over the State as 
whole than a year ago. It has Increased rapidly in the couth- 
western quarter of the State, remains nearly the came as l?.st 
year in the northeast, but has decreased very much in the no 
western quarter. The average for the St 
pent of the straws Infested, CC ith 20.6 per cent a y 
ago. The infestations by counties range from 1 o.r I 
wa and Sandusky Counties to 32 per cent in Stark County 1< 
in cactern Ohio '.here conr: sowed 1 rt 
fall. 
The rapid increase has co:ne about in rout: | rn cor. 
even though practically no was so*vd early. Eeonomic 
damage from the Insect was confined to a few northeastern coun- 
ties. An unusual thing about this curv | _ 
tion in individual Lthln I te eounty . i from 
