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remarkable for cutworm outbreaks in various portions of the country. 
Most prominent of the species concerned in injury was the variegated 
cutworm (Periclroma saucia Huebn.), this species in fact replacing 
the fall army worm as the injurious army worm of that year. Injury 
was to a still longer list of crop and other useful plants, but was 
somewhat more restricted than in the case of the fall army worm, 
although more or less damage was inflicted over a considerable portion 
of the United States and Canada, indicating that infestation was more 
general than reported. The principal losses were sustained on the 
Pacific slope from northern California to British Columbia. 
The life history of the variegated cutworm is somewhat better 
known than that of the fall army worm, but something- remains to be 
learned of both species. 
The fall army worm and variegated cutworm differ considerably in 
habits, as also in distribution, for, whereas, the former feeds normally 
upon grasses, grains, and other Gramineae, and less seldom injures 
garden vegetables and other plants except when driven to attack them 
by hunger, the latter is a regular inhabitant of the garden. Both are 
of growing importance as pests, and, as such outbreaks are apt to 
recur in the near future, it is desirable to place on record all known 
facts in regard to them. 
F. H. C. 
