. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE GRAIN BUG. G. sayi. During this same period Mr. V. L. Wildermiith observed severe damage to milo maize in the Imperial Valley of California. In May, 1912, Mr. C. N. Ainslie received specimens of Chlorochroa sayi and accounts of injury to the heads of spring wheat from a correspondent at Tucumcari, N. Mex. Mr. Ainslie also notes that while making field investigations in Utah during 1912 the farmers in four widely separated districts of the State reported that the grain bug had seriously damaged wheat and alfalfa see
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE GRAIN BUG. G. sayi. During this same period Mr. V. L. Wildermiith observed severe damage to milo maize in the Imperial Valley of California. In May, 1912, Mr. C. N. Ainslie received specimens of Chlorochroa sayi and accounts of injury to the heads of spring wheat from a correspondent at Tucumcari, N. Mex. Mr. Ainslie also notes that while making field investigations in Utah during 1912 the farmers in four widely separated districts of the State reported that the grain bug had seriously damaged wheat and alfalfa seed during the years immediately prior to 1912. Mr. H. E. Smith records widespread damage to barley and oats in the Pecos Eiver Valley of New Mexico during 1912 and 1913. At the same time Mr. E. G. Kelly found similar conditions prevailing in the " dry-farming " section near Clovis, K. Mex., and in the vicinity of Liberal, Kans. In July, 1913, a correspondent wrote from Cloudcroft, N. Mex., that the grain bug had ruined 12 acres of rye on his ranch and that the farmers of that sec- tion had cut the bar- ley for hay to pre- vent the destruction of its grain by the invading hordes of the insect. Similar damage was reported from southern Utah during the same month. In 1914 and 1915 continued reports were received of depredations by the grain bug from various localities in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. DISTRIBUTION. In the United States C, sayi is distributed generally throughout the Upper and Lower Austral zones of the States west of the Great Plains area, including Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Ne- vada, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, western Kan- sas, and the western and northern parts of Texas. (See fig. 1.) These data were secured from personal collections in the field and by an examination of the collections, notes, correspondence, and literature of the United States National Museum and the Bureau of Entomology, as well as from othe
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