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t>lants have not yet anne-red. 
WIREWORMS ( Elat e ridae ) 
South Carolina. H. Dietrich (June 193*' ) : -^ specimen of Heteroderes 
laurentii Guer. was collected °t Myrtle Beach in June 193*^ ^ v C. H. 
Townes. 
Washington. M. C. Lane and H. ?. Lanchester (March 20): Commercial gladi- 
oli grower? of the Sunnyside area are planning treatment of the soil 
to control the wireworms Ph elete s canus Lee. and P. californicus Mann, 
in the fields which are to he planted to this crop. The general up- 
ward movement of these wireworms through the soil at Walla Walla has 
"been somewhat checked "by cool weather. Market growers report the 
presence of a few wireworms in the surface soil. 
California. H. E. Camr>bell (November 193*0: At Temple City an early rain- 
fall of over 2 inches in October, followed by warm weather, was evi- 
dently favorable to the wireworm P. califor nicus , as it has done con- 
siderable damage to rutabagas. From a cron of 7>000 sacks (100 pounds), 
750 sacks were thrown out as culls, owing to holes eaten in them. 
A. 3. Michelbacher (March 21): Near Sacramento several acres of 
a sugar beet field were noticed to be heavily infested by wireworms on 
March 1°. Considerable damage was being done. 
M, W. Stone (February): Cardioohorus tenebrosus Lee. was first 
taken on °lfalfa in Orange County on February 1. A few have been taken 
under "oiles of malva since then. Population counts were again resumed 
in the ^S-^cre lima bean field in Orange County on February 2H. This is 
the fourtxi year training has been carried on in this field, 10,521 
beetles having been captured to date. In 1333; 2,913 were captured, 
and U,lUl in 1932. 
SAY'S STINK LUG ( Chlorochr oa sayi Stehl) 
Montana. A. L. Strand (March 19): A brief survey of north-central Montana 
has been completed and this plant bug is coming through the winter in 
enormous numbers. The center of . the infestation i 1 " in western Kill, 
Lib-, rt;-, ■ n^. Chouteau Counties, but extends as far east as Blaine County 
and as far south as Cascade, and occurs in considerable numbers in 
eastern Pondera, Teton, and Toole Counties. 
CSS SAL AND FORAGE-CHOP INSECTS 
WHEAT AND OTHER SMALL GRAINS 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga de structor Say) 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (March 23): No serious infestation is exuected this 
summer. Some early sown fields in northern Ohio have a medium infestation, 
