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Kansas 
Missippippi 
K. C. Sullivan (April 25): Cutworms are reported at 
Anderson in cornfields following alfalfa. 
M. H. Swenk (April 17): Cutworms (£uxc^ auxUari9_ Grote) 
are moderately abundant on wheat in southeastern Nebraska. 
This species was still abundant in Scotts Bluff County 
during early April. A ring-necked pheasant that flew 
against the windshield of an auto near Morrill, Scotts 
31uff County, on April 8, contained 122 army cutworms 
in its crop. 
R. L. Parker (April 21): The pale western cutworm 
( Porosagrotis orthogonia Morr. ) is reported as very 
abundant on wheat in western Kansas. (April 24): The 
clay-backed cutworm ( Feltia gladiaria Morr.) is abundant 
in the vicinities of Grinnell, Oakley, and Greenfield. 
R. W. Harned and assistants (April): Cutworms are quite 
generally reported as being scarce throughout the State, 
but Agrotis ypsilon Rott. is moderately abundant at 
Cleveland. 
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Idaho 
Oregon 
Washington 
Washington 
C. P. Gillette (April 22): A cutworm is reported as 
moderately abundant in Routt and Sedgwick Counties. 
C. Wakeland (April 22): The usual reports have been 
received of serious injury by cutworms to gardens in several 
parts of the State. 
D. C. Mote (April 21): Cutworms are very abundant on 
garden plants, young strawberry plants, and flowers. L. P. 
Rockwood reports that it is still too early to find readily 
Euxoa messoria Harr. and Euxoa septentrionalis Walk. , garden 
cutworms of the true cutting type, <"hich wintered as eggs 
and may have survived the winter better. 
L. P. Rockwood (April 15): Cutworms, Agrotis c-nigrum L. 
and Neuria procincta Grote, are not so numerous as usual at 
Forest Grove, perhaps because of unusually severe cold in 
January; Cirphis roseola Sm. is about the same as usual. 
•7m. .7. Baker (April 3): Cutworms are destroying a large 
number of new plants in both old and new sod at Grand Mound 
and Rochester, few occurring in old plantings but fields 
plowed last fall and replanted this spring are as seriously 
affected as fields planted on new land. 
A NYMPHALID BUTTERFLY ( Euphydryas taylori Edw.) 
Wm. 77. Baker (March 21-April 10): What appears to be 
this species was observed to be very numerous in the prairie 
district around Grand Mound, the caterpillars literally 
