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CUTWORMS ( Phalaenidae ) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (March 26): Reported damaging ca- 
mellia buds near Norfolk. 
Mississippi. G. L. Bond (March 25): Cutworms are injuring garden plants in 
Jackson County. 
N. D. Peets (March 25): The black cutworm ( Agrotis ypsilon Rott.) is 
attacking tomato plants in Lincoln County. 
Colorado. C. R. Jones (March 25): A few cutworms are reported* 
Nevada. G. G. Schweis (March 23): Outbreak of the arny cutworm (Chorizagrotis 
auxiliaris. Grote)reported from Lyon County. • (Det. by C. Heinrich.) 
G.M. Shogron (March 30): Infestation of C. auxiliaris reported from 
Mason Valley area of Lyon County in the latter part of February. Early in 
March this infestation spread over approximately 2,000 acres, with average 
population of about 10 larvae per square foot. Observations on March 20 
indicated that this insect was no longer any threat to ’agricultural lands 
in the vicinity. The last observation noted an average of only 1 larva 
per square yard. The habitat was principally idle land, predominating 
plants being Russian- this tie and sagebrush. Indications in Smith Valley, 
Lyon County, are that an epidemic of A. yppilon may. materialize. 
However, as spring cultivation and irrigation oegin, larval concentration 
may be materially reduced. 
SUGAR BEET WIREWORW ( Limonius calif ornicus Mann.) 
California. M. W. Stone (March 2): At Oxnard, Ventura County, 15 acres of 
recently transplanted carrots grown for seed were infested with an average 
of 7*5 wireworms per carrot. Wilted plants in a 60-acre lettuce planting 
were infested with an average of 5*3 wireworms per plant. Counts in sev- 
eral rows showed from 18 to 45 percent of the plants missing. 
C. E. Woodworth (March 9): One male recovered from head of broccoli 
in a store in Los Angeles area. The insect is in full emergence but not 
as yet out of the ground locally. .This observation shows clearly a means 
-of distribution of this pest to a noninfested area* (Det. by M. C. Lane.) 
A SCARABAEID ( Rhizotrogus solstitialis L.) 
New York. A. Boving (February): Larvae received which were occurring in 
numbers in a cemetery at Geneva and were seriously damaging the sod. This 
is a very injurious European species. 
JUNE BEETLES ( Phyllophaga spp.) 
Florida. A. M. Phillips (March 24): Adults found in pecan nursery at Monti- 
cello. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE-CROP INSECTS 
WHEAT AND OTHER SMALL GRAINS 
GREEN BUG ( Toxoptera gramlnum Rond.) 
Virginia. A. M. Woodside (December 12): In one field in August County, bar- 
ley plants were killed over an area 50 feet long and 20 feet wide, but 
