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Texas. R. K. Fletcher (July 22): Causing severe injury to garden in Travis 
County on July 6. 
Nevada. G. G. Schweis (June 29): Greasy cutworms ( Agrotis ypsilon Rott.) report- 
ed as damaging sugar heets in the Lovelock area, 
Washington. L. G. Smith (July 17 ) • Five acres of seed peas in Clallam County 
severely damaged hy cutworms. Severe dan age to corn in Pierce and Clark 
Counties. Serious outbreak occurring throughout the north end of Whidby 
Island, Island County, On July 13* (July 24): Doing extensive damage on 
July 15 to peppermint, corn, and root crops on Puget Island. Infestation 
in mint fields reported as being 6 weeks earlier than usual. 
Oregon. D. C. Mote and assistants (June 24): Fifty-percent loss by 4*ypsj.2on re- 
ported on one 20-acre red-beet field at Eugene, (July 15): The"" variegated 
cutworm ( Peridroma merger itosa Haw. ) has been extremely numerous and damage 
ho,s been severe in various places in the Willamette Valley. Field peas 
and clover have been most heavily damaged. Clover heads in some ca„scs were 
so ba,dly eaten that they were not harvested for seed. (Dot. by L. P, Rockr* , 
wood. ) 
ARMYWORM ( Cirphis unipuncta Haw. ) 
District of Columbia.. W. R. Walton (July 23 )• Specimen found at two locations 
on one street in Washington. 
Wisconsin, (July 30) ; Serious but limited outbreaks observed in six counties 
where control requests have been received. Reported from a number of other 
counties. 
Nebraska, H. D. Tate (July 17) : Reported as present in Saline County on June l6, 
C. Wakeland (July 2): Reported as present in Richardson County. 
FALL ARMYWORM ( Laphygma frugiperda A. & S.) 
New York. N. Y, State Coll. Agr. News Letter (July 22): Light infestation gen- 
erally distributed on Long Island. 
District of Columbia, W. R. Walton (July 23 )• Report of what is possibly this 
species received from the northwestern part of the city. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (July 12): La rvac collected from sweet corn near Qpinby, 
in Accomac County. (Det. by C. Heinrich.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (July 25): Injuring corn in Sunflower 
County and in the Meridian area. Possible that report from Chickasaw 
County of budworms on corn was this species. 
