. Wheat Strawworm . s observed, larva?were found in the wheat plants28, and a single pupa wasfound on the following day, all inthe same field of growing taken from thi-~ same fieldearly in the following July pro-duced the spring form nf thisspecies the following springApril, 1885. \ Oxford. dune 6, L884,the senior author found largew inged adults of thesummei formovipositing in the stems of grow-ing wheat, and in a small devel-oped -tem like those observed inMay, about Bloomington, III., aliving pupa Was found. Strawsfrom the Oxford field gave pre-cisely the same form the fol
. Wheat Strawworm . s observed, larva?were found in the wheat plants28, and a single pupa wasfound on the following day, all inthe same field of growing taken from thi-~ same fieldearly in the following July pro-duced the spring form nf thisspecies the following springApril, 1885. \ Oxford. dune 6, L884,the senior author found largew inged adults of thesummei formovipositing in the stems of grow-ing wheat, and in a small devel-oped -tem like those observed inMay, about Bloomington, III., aliving pupa Was found. Strawsfrom the Oxford field gave pre-cisely the same form the following April as did the -traw fromBloomington. The larger form, observed at Oxford dune and later. WAS also collected in fields nhout Bloomington a few daysearlier. Larva1 of this larger form were found in wheat held- insouthern Illinois in May, and the adults were observed in the sametion of country in late May and early June by Prof. 11. Garman,at that time assistant to Dr. S. A. Forbes.* Doctor Riley de-. « herebig jwsition of egg ? Prairie Farmer, Jurj 8, 1882 6 Fourteenth Rep. State Km. L885 [Clr. i<».;| scribed this larger form as a new species, giving it the name the years 1884 and 1885, however, the senior authorreared Rileys Isosoma tritici from straws in which only his /.grande had oviposited and his /. grande from plants to which only/. tritici had access. As this last name had been applied by Doctor Fitch many years earlier to an-other insect, the jointworni, thename grande must necessarily begiven to both forms. BUREAU NOTES AND OBSERVA-TIONS BY ASSISTANT 8. Strangely enough, one of theearliest reports of tins speciescame from Mr. J. A. Starner,Dayton, Columbia County, Wash. Infested straws containing a fewlarva1, but mostly pupae, werereceived September 16, 1882,showing that even at that earlydate it was sufficiently abundantto attract the attention of fa lin-ers. Mr. D. W. Coquillett foundit at Anaheim and Atwater, Cal.,in 1SS5, while Mr
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