. The American entomologist. Entomology. 224 THE AMERICAN isli; (h) lifillt brown. Seed-corn mag^g'pt. — G. Pauls, Eurel'a, Mo.— The whitish maggots, "}{ incli longj find tapering at one end and blunt at the other, which have injured your seed-corn planied oiinew ground by devouring its substance, arc tlie larvie of some Two-winged fly, AVe ' ave never before known leed-eoru to be tluis at- tadced in the AVest, but tlie JuniorEditorhas described a species* by the name of tlie Com Antliorayia (Anthomyiazeaf, Riley), which in- fests seed-corn in "a similar manner in New
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 224 THE AMERICAN isli; (h) lifillt brown. Seed-corn mag^g'pt. — G. Pauls, Eurel'a, Mo.— The whitish maggots, "}{ incli longj find tapering at one end and blunt at the other, which have injured your seed-corn planied oiinew ground by devouring its substance, arc tlie larvie of some Two-winged fly, AVe ' ave never before known leed-eoru to be tluis at- tadced in the AVest, but tlie JuniorEditorhas described a species* by the name of tlie Com Antliorayia (Anthomyiazeaf, Riley), which in- fests seed-corn in "a similar manner in New Jersey. At Figure 158 we represent this CFis- I'O ] New Jersey maggot of tlie natural size, as it appears in the corn; and at Figure 159 a we give an enlarged view of it. After becomingfull fed these maggots leave tlie ker- nels for llie surrounding eartli and contract to pupa> (F'ig. iril) ?;), from which in due time tlie fly escapes. The Corn Antliomyia is a small, modest-looking, yellowish-brown fly, wirli a grayish caste, anil your maggots will very Ukcly iirounce the same species, as they sufliciently rescmlilcil lliusc from New Jersey. It appears that "this niaggnt again at work in New -Tersey, for a farmer in .Susscv: cuuiity, in that State, lately reported to the Iv'ew York Farmers' Club that his corn failed in a great measure to coine up, thou^li he could not disco^?er the cause. By soaking the seed before planting in gas-tar or copperas', the injuries of this maggot might probably be pre\ented. * See his First Annual Report, pp. 151-0. Cut-ivorins.^iV". C. Burcli, Jefferson Ciiij, Mo.— The Cut-worms, one of which had severed a peach sprout about an inch ))elow the surface, are fuU-g'rown specimens of the same species which you sent last month—the larva! of the Lance Rustic {Agrotis telifera, Harris). They have been less injurious lately than they were a month ago, because they have nearly all ceased feeding [June 10, '69], and have become pupa
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