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: : AEMYfOEM ( Cirphis unipuncta Haw. )■' 
West Virginia L,. M. Peairs (May 27); One report of abundance and damage to 
corn received from Pendleton County 'May '23. 
Virginia H. G, Walker and &. E. Gould (May 25): Several serious but 
localized outbreaks of the armyworm have been reported in the 
past week. ■ On the Eastern Shore there' is- an outbreak at Machi- 
pungo, with injury to oats, rye, and wheat, and at Nassawadox 
_ . the damage is serious on oats and wheat. In Princess Anne 
County damage to oats has been reported. 
Kansas H. B. Hungerford (May 7): This species has been visiting 
the flowers of fruit trees and lilac at Lawrence in unusually 
large numbers this year. 
Arkansas " D. Isely (May 23): Local outbreaks have occurred in eastern 
Arkansas, specimens having been collected in Lee, Arkansas , 
Woodruff, Mississippi, and Prairie Counties. 
Mississippi State Plant Board of Mississippi, Press Release (May 25): 
Hundreds of acres of alfalfa, oats, and other crops in a 
number of localities in several Delta counties have been 
seriously injured during the past week by worms, according 
to letters and telephone complaints. The greatest damage 
has occurred in Leflore, Sunflower, and Washington Counties. 
Examinations of specimens show that several species of insects 
are at work, the most abundant being the armyworm. According 
to Prof. R. W. Plarned, this is the first record in Mississippi 
of this insect assuming the army habit, as it is not generally 
present in sufficient numbers to be important in the South. 
R. W. Harned (May 27)} 1 have just .'received another report 
in regard to the armyworms, probably C. unipuncta, from 
Cleveland. On a plantation in Washington County there was a 
20-acre oat field that would probably have yielded more than 
60 bushels per acre that has been almost completely destroyed. 
At the present time the crop is scarcely worth harvesting. 
The armyworms had completed their damage within 48 hours after 
they were first noticed. The weed, curly dock, as well as 
soy bean and alfalfa in the vicinity of this oat field were 
eaten. The leaves on the oats were completely eaten, Tachinid 
eggs were noticed, on some of the worms. Only ten larvae were 
sent in. Pour of them had Tachinid eggs on them. Apparently 
something else is also causing the death of the worms, probably 
a fungous disease. 
Texas p. l. Thomas (May ^20): An outbreak lias been reported from 
eleven counties in nfbrth- central Texas, with injury to oats, 
barley, corn, and cotton. 
