0. P. ^Rainwater (May ,17) J Cutvorms,. A« ypsilon , found severely 
injuring seedling cotton on the 'Experiment station farm at. Florence 
on May 15 * They are completely ruining the stand of cotton in the 
coveivcrop test, where Austrian peas were planted in the fail of 1939 
and turned utider this spri^* Very numerous in this ‘particular field, 
hut just acro.ss.a field road, where no winter cover. crop was planted, 
there is no sigh of injury, (Det, hy C. Heinrich,) 
Mississippi, C, Lyle and assistants (May 25)t Reported as serious pests 
in vegetable and flpwer gardens in the northeastern part of the State, 
A number of. requests for control measure p reported in the southeastern 
part of Mississippi, , V. ' ; • . 
Tennessee. L, ,B. Scott (May 23)s Moderate damage to tobacco, cabbage, and 
tomatoes in north-*central Tennessee,'" although abundance is less than 
normal, * . ■ r . ' „ 
Texas, E. E. McDonald(April '23); In the river-bottom section of Starr County, 
cutworms and other insectshave inflicted severe damage in many cotton- 
fields, - 
Missouri, L, Haseraan (May 21)! A number of complaints received from 
different parts of the State since the middle of May, Some garden 
pl^ts, "at Columbia cut off .recently, but infestation in 'Missouri 
apparently not so severe as usual, 
Utah, &. P. Knowlton (May lO): Army cutworms ( Chorisagrotis a\ixiliaris 
G-rote) are defoliating range plants, shadscale and greasewood, over 
200 acres west of Ephraim. (May 17)s ' Reports of Injury to gardens, 
alfalfa, and wheat received from northern Utah throughout the month; 
serious damage, reported, . ■ - 
■ • pale WESTEEU CUTWORM ( Agrotis orthogohia Morr,) 
Ceneral, H. H. Walkden (May 25)! . Large acreage of wheat and spring barley 
destroyed by the pale western cutworm ( Agrotis orthogonia Morr,) in 
western Kansas, during April and May. As no barley is grown in New Mexico 
and the Texas Panhandle, damage there was' limited, to wheat,.' 
VARIEGATED CUT\'/0RM ( Reridroma margaritbsa Haw,). , 
California, S. Lockwood. (May 21): . Considerable damage done to purple vetch 
in the Half Moon Bay area of San Mateo County. Reports received to the 
effect that the infestation extends over approximately 1,000 acres, 
’ AN ARMYWORM ( Prodehia ’ praef ica Grote),. ' J : ... 
California, A,.‘U, 4<ichelbacher (May 22): Collected in all. the alfalfa 
fields surveyed in the San Joaquin Valley, Up, tp^ 12 collected per 100 
sweeps,' Possible that it may occur in destructive numbers. 
