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would destroy the entire crop. The following* day Mr. Charles Deer- 
ing, of Chicago, III., wrote concerning the outbreak previous^ noted 
in that city and suburbs. The grass upon his own lawn, of perhaps 
2 acres, seemed quite dead in parts that lay mostly in the sun. The 
same day Mr. Joe V. Walz, Evansville, Ind., wrote concerning an 
attack of this species on corn in his vicinity, the farmers there com- 
plaining that this was a new species of corn worm. It was described 
as attacking and boring into the center of the stalks and eating out the 
heart. August 29 we received a telegram from the Evanston Press, 
Evanston, 111., stating that the army worm was destroying lawns in 
that city. Request was made for information for publication, and the 
reply by the writer, who was at that time in charge of the Division, 
was published in the Evanston Press for September 2. The same day 
word was received from Hon. G. W. Koiner, Richmond, Va., that 
this species was destroying corn and millet near that city. On the 
31st of August Dr. W. W. Anderson, Statesburg, S. C. , wrote that 
these caterpillars were eating up the grass and destroying the hay 
crop, as well as garden vegetables, all over the State. The caterpillars 
were said to be much more numerous than usual. 
September 7 we received specimens from Dr. A. D. Hopkins with 
information that the species was destructive in lawns in Morgan town, 
W. Va. The following day Mr. H. Meislahn, Clarcona, Fla., reported 
that this insect, locally known as "buck worm, " was attacking 
"Teosinte" (Euchena mexicana), a useful graminaceous forage plant 
resembling Indian corn. The same day Mr. W. K. Westone, Con- 
garee, S. C, reported that it was very destructive to upland rice in 
that vicinit}^. It was stated that the habit of the larva was to attack 
the foliage of the rice in its tender state, afterwards eating the heads 
and destroying the grains. September 11 Mr. G. L. Grant, editor of. 
the Florists' Weekly Review, Chicago, 111., sent specimens of the egg 
masses, together with moths, with the report that the eggs had been 
deposited in large numbers on the side of a stone wall. The moths 
had also invaded a greenhouse and covered the plants with eggs. 
October 1 we received from Mr. Thomas I. Todd, Athens, Ga., 
larvae of this species, together with others found injuring the leaves of 
the turnip crop of that vicinity. Later he wrote that the ""worms" 
were so numerous as to almost cover the public roads. Nearly all 
when observed were traveling west or southwest. On the 13th we 
received larvse from Mr. Warren Knaus, McPherson, Kans., with the 
statement, conveyed in a letter of October 17, that they were very 
destructive to growing wheat near Conway, Kans. October 28 Mr. 
J. C. Vida, mayor of Camajuani, Matanzas, Cuba, sent specimens with 
the report that this species was concerned with two other caterpillars, 
both evidently native to Cuba and unknown to us, in a severe attack 
upon pasture land as well as young tobacco. 
