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quarters, made on April 16, shoved that considerable numbers 
of bugs were stj 11 present in such, quarters. While the spring 
has been unusually wet, the adult bugs are very little affected 
by wet weather until after they have left the protection of 
their hibernating places* No serious damage from the chinch 
bugs is expected over the State this year. 
EUROPEAN CORN' BORER (Pyrausta mibilalis Hbn. ) 
Connecticut W« E* Britton (April 23): State and Federal men are now burning 
stalks, stubble, and vesds around each infestation in the 
quarantined towns of Egst Lynn., ^aterfbrd, Few London, Groton, 
and Stonington* Fully as abundant as conpared with an average 
year. 
General Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology (inarch 1927): Shipments 
from Europe to the United States of parasites and parasitized 
larvae of Fyrausta hub i Talis are steadily being made. For the 
present fiscal year to date shipments have been made as follows: 
Eulirnne ria eras 3 if emur, 29,534; Angitia punctoria, 11,209; 
Ph? eo genes plsn.if.vcns, 17,01?; Micro gp ster tibi alis, 127,680; 
Masicer a senilis,, 1,652; parasitized larvae bearing various 
percentages .of other species, 1,242,000. 
ARMYWORM .( Oirphis unipuncta Haw. ) 
Illinois W« P. Flint (April 18): Adults of the armyworm were taken 
during the week of April 4 in southern Illinois, and the next 
^eek in small numbers at bait traps in central Illinois. Ob- 
servations thus far do not indicate that the moths are present 
in more than normal numbers. . . 
CORN SAP. WORM (Helicthis obsoleta Fab. ) 
Louisiana U7« E* Hinds (April 25): The corn ear worm is developing 
abundantly in early planted fields of corn. It has proven to 
be more injurious than usi-al in its attack on sweet peas and 
other early spring host plants. 
Texas F. L. Thomas (April 25): The corn ear worm is causing injury 
in some corn fields near Robs town* 
FALL ARMT7QRM (l.aghv^na frugiperda S. & A..) 
Louisiana T* 1* Holloway and 7* E. Haley (April 12): The fall armyworm 
was found injuring young corn at Cutoff, La. 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER BTiTLS ( Diabrotica duodecimpunctata 
Fab. ) 
North J> N. Tenhet (April 21 ): Slight damage common; one field 
Carolina of about 10 acres three-fourths destroyed. Field being replanted. 
Damage negligible on high ground, 100 per cent destruction on 
low bottom land at Chadbonrn. 
