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as soon as applied, resulted in an outbreak of the worms 
■which has absolutely got "beyond control. During the few 
days I was away on my trip nearly all of the cotton in 
the Valley was defoliated* It is rather difficult to 
estimate what the actual loss from the attack will "be, 
since a large portion of the cotton crop is already opening, 
several hundred bales a day being ginned in the Valley, 
while the late cotton will be severely injured, the loss 
will be partially offset by the boll weevil loss which 
would have been experienced in the absence of the worms. 
At the present time the outbreak of the cotton caterpillar 
extends from Brownsville along the coast as far as Liberty 
County. Inland the northern limit of severe injury coincides 
just now with the main line of the Southern Pacific Railway. 
T. E. Holloway and B. R. Coad (July 12): The cotton leafworm 
is reported as present in cotton fields in the vicinity of 
Nacogdoches, the demand for arsenicals being stimulated there. 
Geo\ A, Maloney: Farmers of Carthage, Panola County, report 
the presence of the cotton leafworm on July 5» Also the 
State Entomologist reports through the press of July 15 an 
unusually heavy infestation of leafworm throughout southern 
Texas as far north as Travis County. 
Arkansas 
Porto 
Rico 
Dwight Is$ly (July 20): The cotton leafworm was collected at 
Forrest City, St* Francis County, on July IS* 
Geo. B, Wolcott (June 25): One live pupa was found at Ratillo, 
one empty pupal skin at Garrochales. These are the first 
records this year of Alabama in Porto Rico, not a trace of 
it having been found at Boqueron two and four months ago 
after the outbreak of last fall and winter had been eliminated 
by Chalcis incerta Cresson. 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
Connecticut John Fay (June 22): Cutworms are attacking tobacco at 
Portland. They are much more destructive than in an average 
year with 15 per cent damage. Poisonefi-bait , hunting for 
worms by hand, and poisoned plants are the remedies used. 
TRUE VJHET/ORMS (Elateridae) 
Kentucky 
A* C. Morgan (June 21): At Lexington some fields with 50 
to 60 per cent infestation have sufficient injury to 
require 10 to 15 per cent resetting. Practically every 
field'; has some infestation. 
