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but I did not keep them. I think that I have noticed similar larvae m 
young growing beans during the past year or two, but they were rare 
and I gave no attention to them. Occasionally the infested beans grew~ 
through the surface and the first leaves expanded, but they soon turned 
yellow and withered and died.” 
The Tile-horned Prionus in Prairie Land. — In our Second Mis* 
souri Report we gave several instances of the finding of the larvse of 
Prionus imbricornis in prairie laud some distance from large trees, show- 
ing that in all probability the} 7 fed on the roots of herbaceous and even 
annual plants. The past summer another instance of the same thing 
has come to our notice, and Mr. Samuel W. Glenn, of Huron, Dak. y 
states in , a letter dated June 3, accompanying a specimen of this larva y 
that they were found “ in large numbers by Mr. J. B. Coomer, a farmer 
residing six and a half miles southwest of Huron, in ground which was 
broken in June, 1883, and not since plowed till to-day. Their average 
distance from the surface was about seven inches. There are no trees- 
within a radius of twenty miles.” 
The Glover-seed Midgke in Wisconsin. — IJp to the present season? 
the Clover-seed Midge (Cecidomyia leguminicola Liutner) has been found 
onl} T in New York, Vermont, District of Columbia, Virginia, and one 
locality in Pennsylvania (Lewisburg, Union County). During the past 
year, however, we have received specimens of infested heads of red 
clover from eastern Wisconsin, where it seems to have just been no- 
ticed for the first time. The chances are against the theory of recent in- 
troduction, however, and that the probabilities are that it has been pres- 
ent in the State for some years, becoming abundant enough to attract 
attention only this season. Mr. Claus Oesan, of New Holstein, Calu- 
met County, wrote under date of June 26, 1885, that hardly a single 
blossom was to be seen in any of the Red Clover fields in his vicinity r 
while Alsike and White Clover blossomed as usual. He noticed this 
same paucity of bloom in the second crop of the previous year, but the 
first crop of 1884 was full of fine blossoms. 
This insect was treated in the reports of the Entomologist, United 
States Department of Agriculture, for 1878 and 1879, and the remedy 
recommended in the latter report is to cut the first crop of the season 
three weeks earlier than usual, giving the larvm of the midge no time 
to mature. This remedy necessitates that the farmer should be familiar 
with the insect in all stages, and should make careful examinations at 
short intervals until the proper time for cutting arrives. All volunteer 
clover should also be mowed, and all of the farmers of a neighborhood 
should cut at about the same time, as otherwise the remedy will be 
only partly successful. 
Dr. Lintner, in his First Report as State Entomologist of New York (p? 
54), says : 
In the mauy instances in which onr economic entomologists have recommended 
plowing under the infested crop, I would venture to supplement this direction : foL 
