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The following papers contain data or statements on the squash bug: 
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BROOM CORN, THE PROBABLE HOST IN WHICH 
PYRAUSTA NUBILALIS HUBN. REACHED AMERICA 
By Harrison E. Smith, U. S. Bureau of Entomology , Corn Borer Laboratory , 
Arlington, Mass. 
Since the introduction of the European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis 
Hubn., into America, there has been a very considerable interest as to 
the manner in which this insect may have reached the eastern shores 
of the United States. Most of the published statements have indi¬ 
cated raw hemp imported from southern or central Europe as the 
possible food plant in which the European corn borer obtained entrance 
into this country. 
At a public hearing held by the Federal Horticultural Board at 
Boston, Mass., August 15, 1919, Professor George G. Atwood, chief 
nursery inspector for the state of New York, made the following 
statement: 
