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C. P. Gillette (June 14): Cutworms are very abundant, 
causing especially serious damage to head lettuce, in 
northern Colorado. 
G. F. Enowlton (June 2): Cutworms are damaging corn and 
late-nlanted tomatoes in 3ox Elder and 'Teber Counties. 
Cutworms have been doing considerable damage to late tomatoes 
in northern Davis County. 
L. P. Hocfavood (May 31): Five times as many moths of 
Agrotis c- nigrum L. were taken in bait traps in hey, 1930, 
as in May, 1929, three times as many of Lyco-ohotia marsaritosa 
Kav:., and only one- seventh as many of .Agrotis yosilon Pott, 
at Gaston ana Forest Grove, while twelve times as many Jeltia 
vancouverensis Grote were collected at the same place. 
Neuria procincta Grote "as scarce on the bent grass miadows 
near Coquille. On a wet meadow mostly grown up to sedges but 
with some bent grass, from 10 to 15 larvae in the second and 
third stages were taken per 50 sleeps of the net. Damage by this 
species to the bent grass seed crop is not anticipated this 
year. This species is much scarcer than usual in the 'illamette 
Valley. 
COTTON I/IAF mm (Alabama argillacea Hon.) 
F. L. Thomas (June 25): The cotton leaf worm is present 
in nearly all fields of the lower Rio Grande Valley. 
WHITS-LIME-B SPHINX (Celerio lineata Fab.) 
G. G. Schweis (June 28): A heavy outbreak is reported 
in four counties feeding mostly on Hussian thistle and malloT,-. 
No cultivated crops attacked as yet. 
WIREWOEMS (Slateridae) 
H. 3. Peirson (June 20): Wireworms are moderately abundant 
at Augusta. 
T. J. Headlee (June 1): Wireworms are very abundant in the 
central and northern parts of the State. 
C. a. Thomas (June 8): Phelete s a g onus Say has done 
considerable damage in the southeastern part of the State 
during late May and early June. In the first half of May 
the dry weather kept these larvae down in the soil, but after 
the rains of mid-May, they appeared near the surface and 
injured corn and truck crops. One 5-acre field of newly- 
planted corn in Montgomery County was plowed up and replanted 
after over 80 per cent of the grains had been ruined, 7,'ire- 
worms of other species were very scarce in this field. 
