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FALL ABLIY ZOK 
L>iJCla S« & A.) 
Indiana J. J. Davis (SPECIAL TEIEGSAPHIC REPORT SEST. 20). "Fall army 
worm first observed in northern Indiana on September 20 attacking 
alfalfa." The outbreaks reported from Laporte and Bedford. 
Kentucky H. Gannon (September 21). "The fall army worm has recently made 
its appearance in Kentucky and has, for a couple of weeks, been 
doing some severe mischief in Carroll County on the Ohio River to 
corn, riddling the expanded blades and i^orking like a corn earworm 
in the rolled blades of late-planted corn. In Washington County, 
farther south, it is destroying vegetation of all sorts." 
APMY WORM ( Cirphis unipunct a Raw. ) 
Kansas E. G. Kelly (September 22). "This species has made its presence 
known in two localities in HcPherson County on late corn." 
STALE BORER ( Paparpema nitela Guen. ) 
Indiana J. J. Davis (September 14). "The stalk borer is still being re- 
ported, the reports for the past month relating to its occurrence 
in corn in the large basal portions of the s'calk." 
EUROPEAN COBH BORER ( Pyraust a nu bilalis Httbn. } 
W. R. Walton, Bureau of Entomology. "Infestation in Ohio now ox- 
tends from the Pennsylvania State line along the shore of Lake 
Erie almost continuously to Toledo. Infestation in the Province 
of Ontario, Canada, is very much more extensive end severe than 
anyshsre in the United States, one record extending as far west 
as the shoro of lake Ontario. ^ hearing is to be held before 
the Federal Horticultural Bo^rd on October 11 to consider quaran- 
tine measures for the newly infested territory." 
BUMBLE FLCE5R BEETLE (Evnhoria iada L. ) 
New York C. R. Crosby (August 30). "Injuring the ears of corn about 
Rochester. Much worse on the outside of fields." 
Id. D. Leonard (August 30). "Damage reported from Honeoye Falls, 
Lionroe County. The beetles are reported as working through the 
husks and eating the kernels of the best ears." 
E. P. Felt (September 21). "Bumble flower beetle has oeen some- 
what abundant and injurious in both Rensselaer and Essex Counties. 11 
Delaware 
C. 0. Houghton (Late August) 
about Stanton." 
"Reported as doing sone damage 
