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C0R1T EAR "OR! I (M sliothi s obsoleta Fab. ) 
Uew York Rodney Cecil thruvgh J. E. Graf (September 13): Lie collecting 
corn ear worms for hibernation at Geneva from 2 bushels of corn 
(Golden Bantam) we found practically every ear infested with from 
1 to 3 larvae. 
Indiana J. J. Davis (October 23): More abundant than usual, damaging 
late sweet corn and affecting field corn throughout the State. 
ALFALFA 
YELLOW- STRIPED ARMYWORM (Prodenia orni-thoeaLli Guen.) 
Illinois W. P. Flint '(October 19): Moderate flights of this insect occurr- 
ed in central Illinois during September 'and caterpillars are now 
present in such numbers in some sections in southern Illinois as 
to cause damage to alfalfa and clever. 
FALL ARMYWORM C fophyflBB. fr v- Loerla 3. 5 A. ) 
Indiana J. J. Davis (October 28): Armyworms were reported doing consider 
able damage to alfalfa and sweet clover at Rockport, October 3. 
Possibly fall armyworm but was unable to get specimens for posi- 
tive identification. 
GRASS 
ANOMALA '.'nom^la orientalis tfaterh. ) 
Connecticut W. E. Sritton (October 24): ny complaints lave been received 
from owners at New Haven end many injured lpv;ns observed but all 
are in the same section where the insect was first found here. 
They are more abundant than ever before. 
FRUIT I IT SECTS 
APPLE 
COOLLY APPLE APHID ( Eriosoma laniger ... ) 
Arizona Arizona Hews Letter, Vol. 3, Ho. 9 (September 30): The woolly 
aphid was reported as being serious by a correspondent who manages 
a commercial apple orchard near Prescott. 
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CODLING MOTH ( Cr.rpjcar<sa To:n.cn:lla L. ) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (October 22); A considerable amount of side-worm 
injury by the codling moth has been shewing up for the most part 
in the eastern part of the State. This appeared, as near as I 
can determine at this time, mainly in August, which would lead us 
to suppose that it wa8 due to the activities of the second-brood 
larvae. 
