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n dv lilrplv that they will be found affected by the same in- 
aK.i. w. f y "° 81 
of the matter goes, this has proved to be strictly true. I 
literature. 
In Bulletin 1 .1 .SLgft'&l.' 
tl» “Sierf, Antor. Florid *- iwfta Oe.iionrj.< 
v „ hants of sorghum (without specifying whicli^ species is in- 
; jUr/Viv the larvie of Agrotis (cut-worms). the weevil is also 
S liv itr Neal to be very bad in young broom-corn in Honda, 
said by ur. .t renorted by him to attack the leaves, 
and larvae of Hehotlis are^ repor ea oy^ ig evid ently some 
buds, young*’^is item s“ce broom-corn has neither ears nor silk, 
tnTit’‘seems likely that this remark was intended to apply to ordi- 
na in [he'reporf 1 of the United States Entomological Commission foi 
1877 the 'act is noticed that sorghum is commonly remarkably free 
from Sury by grasshoppers, even the voracious and almost omniv¬ 
orous Colorado grasshopper ordinarily passing it by. 
The fact has been repeatedly mentioned by writers on the chinch 
hni that both broom-corn and sorghum were peculiarly liable to th, 
injurious attentions of this insect, as it seems to decidedly prete 
them to Indian corn. . 
Mention l has also been made by r T » jn the e laborat 
S-Knffl’, the 8th report of the State Bute 
moloaist of Illinois, mentions the occurrence in Europe of a plan 
louse (Sipha) upon sorghum, which he believes likely to infest th 
plant in this country also. . T ,„ 
Tn a valuable paper on the plant-lice of Italy, by Griovanm Pai 
mention is made of the four following species of the. 
mttuiiuii Tnrnntpra arammu 
insects infeshng sorghum in tbit‘coun^' -fo^tera grammu 
occurs upon the under surface of the leaves of a great Vcllle > 
Xinaceous plants, including both corn and - sorghum; Aph 
avena t the common grain Aphis, well known m Illinois, occurs 
autumn upon various species of sorghum, including Sorghum sac<h 
ratum beneath the sheaths of the superior leaves at the base of t 
nATiioie of seeds: Sypha maydis is said to occur rarely upon . 
under surface of the leaves of Sorghum saccharatum; and 
hoveril is found from June to December upon the loots of a g 
number of graminaceous species, including all the cultivated vanet. 
of sorghum. ^ -p 
Finally in the Third Biennial Report of the Kansas State Boa 
of Agriculture (1888), Prof. A. E. Popenoe gives an account of t 
appearance of the corn plant-louse (Aphis mmdis) on sorghum 
that State. _ 
* Flora degli Afidi Italiani, flnora osservati dal Prof. G. Passermi. (“Dal Bullel 
Entomologico, Anno III.’’) . ^ 
t ffi e M*o d f SUbtensteln to repre.ent two of the ... I 
of Schizoneura corni, Koch. See American Entomologist, 1880, p. 178. 
