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GBNBRAL FEEDERS 
CUTWORMS (Phala.enidae) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 2l): Specimens of the clay-hacked cutworm 
( Feltia gladiaria Morr.) were received from Hancock County, where they 
were feeding on vegetables in December. Specimens of the granulate cut- 
worm (F. annexa Treit.) were received from three properties in Jackson 
and Hancock Counties in December, where they were feeding on turnip and 
other vegetables. Specimens of the black cutworm ( Agrotis ypsilon Rott.) 
were received from Jackson County in December with the report that turnips 
were being destroyed, 
Nebraska. H. D. Tate (February 19 ): Specimens of a, rmy cutworm ( Chorizagrotis 
auxiliaris Grote) submitted from Hitchcock County. Large numbers of catoi 
pillars observed migrating along roadside. 
BEET ARMYWORM ( Laphygma exigua Hbn, ) 
Arizona. L. L. Stitt (January l^)* Larvae found on alfalfa and Sisymbrium iri* 
on January 15 at Yuma. 
WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
Louisiana. E. K, Bynum (February 10)i Specimens collected near Edgard in the 
southern part of the State. Reported as. doing considerable damage to 
sugarcane and other field crops. (Det. by W. K. Anderson.) 
California, M. W. Stone (January 31)* Male and female adults of the sugar- 
'beet wireworm ( Linonius calif ornicus Mann.) began to emerge from cages 
at Ventura on January 31» 1 week earlier than in 1940. 
EUROPEAN EARWIG ( Forf icula auricularia L.) 
Utah. G. F, Knowlton (January 6): Reported as annoying in and around homes 
in the Holladay-Cottonwood-Granite area of Salt Lake County. 
California. H. J. Ryan (February 18): Intercepted in two shipments of 
ornamentals originating in Eureka, Humboldt County, and San Jose, Santa 
Clara County, shipped to Tarzana and Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County. 
RING-LEGGED EARWIG ( Suborellia annuli pcs Lucas) 
Mississippi, C. Lyle (February 21 ): Reported as injuring stored Irish 
potatoes in Lincoln County in October. 
SAY’S STINKBUG ( Chlorochroa sayi Stal) 
Arizona. E. E. Russell (January 10): Overwintered adults swept freely during 
December and \ip to the present from alfalfa and from mixtures of alfalfa 
and small grain in open fields in the Salt River and Buckeye Valleys, in 
south-central Arizona. One fenal-e found in the Buckeye Valley on January 
8 contained practically fully developed eggs. Second winter in succession 
