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throughout the State, north and south from Newkirk to Ardmore, 
No particular flight of "winged" forms has yet occurred this spring, 
The infestation has "been more or less prevalent since "heat 
germinated last fal 1; Infestation occurs also in barley and per- 
haps will be rather serious .in oats*. Not many parasites have 
been reported up to the' present time, 
C« S. Rude (Mp.rch 14); This pest is shoeing ip in a belt clear 
across from the southern to the northern part of Oklahoma, At 
present it is to be found in Jefferson, Comanche, Stephens, 
Grady, Caddo, Canadian, Blaine, Kin-fisher, Logan, Noble, Kay, 
and Garfield Counties* 
Texas Monthly Letter Bureau of Entomology, No, 166, (February, 1928):, 
Early in February F, W, Boyd, of the field laboratory at San 
Antonio, Tex, , made a trip through northern Texas to study the 
effects of the extremely cold weather on green bugs. He reports 
that they continue to be abundant near Wichita Falls and in the 
neighborhood of Denton, So far as he was able to find, the cold 
weather has had no effect on them* 
PLAINS FALSE '7IRSW0RM ( Eleodes opaca Say) 
Kansas J t W« McColloch (February 27); Larvae of this species are abundant 
in wheat fields about Gbpdland, 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
Kansas J, W» Md'Colloch (March 20); Injury to wheat by cutworms has been 
reported as follows: 
February 3 Goodland 
March 12 ,.,.... Olmitz 
March 16 Levant 
Specimens received from Olmitz proved to be the army cutworm, 
ALFALFA 
PEA APHID (lllino.ia pisi Kalt. ) 
Oklahoma C* E, Sanborn (March 20): Macro si oh urn pisi is doing considerable 
damage in Oklahoma to alfalfa* Reports are available from the 
w estern part of the State at Clinton. It is also prevalent in other 
localities and doing considerable damage* 
C, S* Rude (March 14): They are numerous enough to call for 
control work in the northwestern part of the State, 
