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which was menacing some areas late in the summer, and there is less 
liklihood now of serious injury than there was at this time last year* 
The only parts where conditions appear at all serious are southern and 
western Illinois, southwestern Indiana, all of Missouri, central 
Kentucky, central Tennessee, and possibly also central and eastern 
Kansas and southeastern Nebraska. 
VkHEAT STRAY* WORM 
The wheat straw worm ( Harmolita grandis Riley) occurred in rather 
devastating numbers in central and western Kansas this year. Adults of 
the second brood began to emerge late in May; and by the end of June a 
general outbreak was under way, in many cases 50 per cent of the stems 
being infested. It was estimated that the Kansas '-heat crop of 1929 
suffered a loss of from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 bushels due to the 
combined depredations of this insect and the Hessian fly. 
CHINCH BUG 
Infestations' of the chinch bug ( Blissus leucopterus Say) continued 
at a very low ebb throughout the year. No reports were received of any 
considerable infestations throughout the known chinch-bug belt. This 
insect was reported from Lenawee "County on the southern border of Michigan 
this year. It is only at intervals of many y^ers that this insect 
occurs in Michigan in injurious numbers. It put in a rather unusual 
appearance in Hartford, Conn., where it was damaging lawn grass. 
GREEN BUG 
From the middle of September throughout the remainder of the fall 
there "ere rather heavy infestations of the green bug ( Toxopt^ra 
graminum Rond.) in Georgia and North Carolina. Deadened areas -ere 
appearing in the grain fields by the middle of November. Late in 
November this insect was reported as seriously damaging early-sown winter 
barley in Butler County and early-sown -heat in Meigs County, Ohio. Eor 
the country as a whole, there was no general infestation. 
STALK BORER 
The stalk borer ( Papaioema nebris nitela Guen.) was abnormally 
abundant throughout the New England, Middle Atlantic, East Central, and 
T7est Central States and, though apparently more troublesome than last 
year, it did not do so much damage as in 1927. 
CORN EAR ffOBM 
During the last week in April the corn ear worm ( Heliothis obsoleta 
Eab. ) was reported as unusually abundant in -cst-central Texaa, and by 
