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A list of localities where injuries were noticed in the State of Illi- 
nois during 1899, together with a short general account of this species, 
was given by Messrs. Forbes and Hart in Bulletin No. 60 of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station (pp. 497, 498, 
1900). The actual localities in Illinois where attack was observed 
include, besides Chicago and its suburbs, Quincy, Meredosia, Arcola, 
Urbana, Villaridge, and Champaign. 
A brief report of the occurrence of the fall army worm in Nebrask¢ 
in 1899 was given in the Thirteenth Annual Report of the agricul- 
tural experiment station of that State (1890, pp. 47, 48). The actual 
list of localities infested included Tecumseh, Beatrice, Crete, Hast- 
ings, Fremont, Northbend, Gothenburg, and Butte, and the crops 
infested included alfalfa, sugar beets, rye, white clover, and blue 
grass. At Northbend and Gothenburg the *‘ worms” were reported 
as destroying grass growing on lawns. 
Writing May 12, 1900, Mr. N. L. Willet, Augusta, Ga., stated that 
this species was injurious in that locality the previous summer, doing 
a great deal of serious damage, principally to velvet beans grown as a 
forage crop. On the 19th of the same month Mr. G. G. Hood, China 
Spring, Tex., reported this species in his vicinity. He stated that 
this insect, with the common army worm (Leucania unipuncta), speci- 
mens of which he sent, had been present in his section the preceding 
year after a rainfall of 30 inches the first of July. They stripped the 
alfalfa fields and did considerable damage to wheat, young corn, and 
sorghum. 
OCCURRENCE IN 1900. 
Stranger still than the occurrence of the fall army worm in 1899 was 
its apparent nearly complete disappearance the following season. Up 
to September 17, when the writer captured a single moth at a light 
in this city, no word had been received from any of our correspond- 
ents of the occurrence of this insect, in spite of numerous inquiries in 
regard to it. In all perhaps upward of seventy people had been writ- 
ten to in regard to possible injurious occurrences in 1900, and, although 
many of our correspondents were good observers, the insect was not 
seen by them. 
October 12 we received information from Mr. W. R. Beattie, of the 
Division of Botany, that an insect which he had mistaken for the boll 
worm was doing great damage to corn on the Potomac Flats, near the 
Department of Agriculture. The species concerned in the injury 
proved to be Laphygma frugiperda, present in all stages at this time 
and in the greatest abundance, the corn plat infested being a complete 
ruin. The fact had first been noticed about the middle of September, 
but from the appearance of the leaves and stalks it was obvious that 
the insects had begun work a little earlier. Another and an unrecorded 
food plant was observed—the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum), which was 
