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MOPIiON CRICKET Unabrus simplex Hald. ) 
Montana A. L. Strand. "Through a mistalce in identification which has 
since been cleared up, the coulee criel>et. Poranab^us scab r ? e g 111 3 
!■'.-• o.n * , waa reported in Volume 1, No. 5 of the Insect Per^t Survey 
Bulletin as occurring in Toole and Teton Counties. 7iiis should 
have been the Mormon cricltet, Anabrus sinrp lex. " 
Aphod ius di3 t j no t as Mtlll. 
Nebraska M. H. Sweiifc (November 18, 1921). "Heavy flights of this beetle 
were observed in the wheat fields in Cheyenne County early in 
November, but no injury was done." 
MITE GRUBS (Phyno-Vh^rra spp, ) 
"/est L. M. Peairs ("arch 10). "larvae are quite numerous about Morgan- 
Virginia town, full-grown grubs being within 10 to 12 inches of the sur- 
face," 
CUTVORMS (Undetermined ) 
Kansas G-. /. Dean ("'arch 13). "7e are receiving a few reports of cut- 
worms from me south-. central part of Xri.e State. These are in 
wheat." 
CORN 
A NEW CORN BCRER ( Diatraea line Plata "/rlker) 
Texas W. R. 7/alton, Bureau of Entomology (March 19),. Turing the summer 
of 1921, Mr. R. J-.. Epperson, one of the inspectors of the Federal 
Horticultural Board, employed under the direction of "Dr. ". D. 
Hunter on the Mexican border, discovered that a lepidopterous 
stDl 7 :-borer was very numerous in the corn in the Rio Grande 
Valley from El Paso southward through the Big 3end country, being 
especially nurerous on the Mexican side of the line. Messrs. 
C. H. Gable and R. A, Epperson were assigned to investigate the 
insect with a result that a single adult was reared which was 
determined during the month of February this ye -r as Dia tresfe ; 
lineoia ta 'Vallsr. The late Mr. "/. R. McOonnell had studied 
this insect at Carlsbad, New Mexico, during the month of 
February, 1914, and the following year. 
"Messrs. Gable and Epperson conducted a survey in the Big 
Bend Country of Tex^s during the first ten d ^ys of February this 
year and found the insect present in ail cornfields in Brewster 
County, and as f ->r north as Las Cruces, New Mexico. The infes- 
tation was heavier ilong the river than elsewhere. Here it was 
impossible to fin; 1 m unin^ur^d st-lM. In some fields whore 
only stubble was found there had been approximately 50 per cent 
infestation and 25 per cent of the dead stubble contained living 
lirvae. Sugar cane and milo maize were al^o attac^d, although 
