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were not reared to the perfect state, but as they agreed very well 

 with the description which I took of the above specimen, I have no 

 doubt that they belonged to the same species. 



In the afternoon of July 18th a farmer who had commenced to cut 

 a field of Hungarian grass containing about two acres, informed 

 me that it was badly infested with cut-worms. Kepairing to the 

 field I found that, in the main, he was correct, but the infesting 

 insects were not cut-worms, but were genuine Army Worms. They 

 were most abundant beneath the lodged grass which lay flat upon 

 the ground, and here there was frequently one worm to every square 

 inch of the surface. They were of all sizes, from five-eighths of an 

 inch long to nearly full grown, but the greater number were nearly 

 full grown. I examined the Hungarian grass, which had not yet 

 been cut down, but did not find any of the worms feeding, neither 

 could I perceive that they had injured the grass to any great extent, 

 and the owner of the field was also of the same opinion. They had 

 probably fed upon the lower leaves, and as they usually die and 

 wither up before the grass is cut, their absence would not be noticed. 

 The examination was made while the sun was shining brightly, and 

 as these worms are loth to move about at such times it is not at 

 all strange that I did not find any of them feeding at the time of 

 my visit. All of the grass in this field was cut down on the same 

 day that I made the above examination, so that further observations 

 on the worms in the standing grass could not be made. 



This field is situated in the extreme southern end of a forty-acre 

 pasture lot. In the southern end of this lot are about ten acres of 

 cleared land ; the remaining portion of the lot is quite thickly cov- 

 ered with trees. The land immediately adjoining the Hungarian 

 field on the north is kept pastured off quite closely throughout the 

 entire growing season. 



Adjoining this field on the east, and separated from it only by a 

 narrow lane, is a field of tilled land eight or ten rods in width, and 

 extending northward twenty or thirty rods beyond the north side of 

 the Hungarian field. This field has been planted to corn for several 

 years past. On the east of this field is a wide lane, through which 

 a small creek flows. This lane is kept pastured off quite closely 

 during the growing season. This lane is bordered on the east by a 

 garden patch about four rods square, and north and east of this is 

 a field which extends eastward about twenty rods, and about an 

 equal distance northward. In the summer of 1880 this field was 

 plowed for the first time and was afterward sown to buckwheat ; 

 the present season it was planted to cucumbers and turnips. Bor- 

 dering on the north end of this field is a strip of wet meadow land 

 six or seven rods wide, which, during the greater part of the year, 

 is covered with a rank growth of wild grass. On the south side of 

 the Hungarian field is a public road, and south of this is a field 

 which extends southward thirty or forty rods. The western edge of 

 this field is about on a line with the west end of the Hungarian 

 field, but the field extends eastward five or six rods beyond the 

 eastern end of the Hungarian field. This field was seeded to timothy 

 several years ago ; last spring it was plowed up and planted to corn. 

 To the east of this field is the farmer's barnyard, barn, granaries, 

 and other outbuildings, and to the east and south of these is a small 

 orchard seeded to timothy. 



