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Bureau of Plant Industry, called up to inform us that em- 
ployees of his office visiting Fort Myer had heard reports 
of injury there by the Japanese beetle. 
BERTHA ARMYY/ORM (Barathra configurata Walk. ) 
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J. A. Munro (June 25): June 16 is the earliest record taken 
of the emergence of the bertha armyworm. 
CUTWOBMS (Noctuidae) 
C. A. Thomas (June 22): Cutworms have been very injurious 
in certain localities in southeastern Pennsylvania during 
early June. Tobacco has been injured in Lancaster County and 
beets have suffered some in certain fields in Bucks County. 
Several cornfields have been badly injured, the loss in one 
field amounting to about 20 per cent of the plants. The cut- 
worms in this field were almost all Agrotis ypsilon Hott. 
J. J. Davis (June 27): Agrotis yosilon Hott. has been re- 
ported destructive in Gibson County along the Wabash River in 
overflowed areas. The granulated cutworm Feltia annexa Treit. 
damaged corn at Rennsselaer, June 22. 
E. L. Chambers (June 20): Many reports are being received 
to the effect that Qligia f ractilinea Grote is again doing 
serious injury to patches of corn along fence rows and ditches. 
A. G. Ruggles and assistants (June): Cutworms are reported 
from moderately abundant to very abundant in nearly every 
county in the southern third of the State, and at Ivanhoe, 
Lincoln County, gardens have been almost completely destroyed 
where poison was not used. 
J. A. Munro (June 25): Porosagrotis orthogonia Morr. is re- 
ported to be causing serious injury to flax, corn, and other 
crops in Hettinger, Adams, Grant, Morton, Oliver, Stark, and 
Dunn Counties, all of which are west of the Missotiri River. 
All specimens received from that section are this species. 
H. C. Severin (June 24): Several species of cutworms did 
an enormous amount of damage to garden and truck crops. 
Chorizagrotis auxiliaris Grote was the principal species 
present. Injury is now subsiding. 
C. J. Doake (June): Cutworms are from moderately to very 
abundant over the entire State. 
M. H. Swenk (May 15-June 15): The outstanding injury to 
field crops during the period here covered was the depredation 
of various cutworms to young corn. Thousands of acres of corn 
had to be replanted because of the destruction of the young 
