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G S U S S A L F E E D E P. F 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae.) 
Tennessee. G. K. Bentley (March): Grasshonoers , Sc hi ...tocerca americana 
Dr"ury and Disso s tei/a Carolina L. , are moderately abundant in eastern 
Tennessee. 
California. S. Lockwood (March 25): The eggs of M ela nonius m exicanu s 
Sauss. were just beginning to hatch in Imperial County on March ig. 
A few nynrohs of Ciamnula "oelludica Scudd. were found in grazing land 
south of San Diego County close to the coast. In the hills above 
the Santa Maria Valley, in San Luis Obispo County, a few first-instar 
nynrohs of C. uellu cida were found and many of the eggs in the egg 
bee's were on the v^rge of hatching. On '-'arch 2H these escg?- started 
hatching, immediately after they were removed from the soil and 
warmed by the sun. 
EUROPEAN EARWIG ( Forficula auricularia L. ) 
Oregon. D, C. Mote (March 21): Males are beginning to move around. We 
have had reports of their being found in homes at Corvallis. 
CUTWORMS ( No c tu i dae ) 
Tennessee. J. U. Gilmore (March 22): Pol l a renigera Steuh. and Feltia 
ducens Walk, are seriously injuring early gardens at Clarksville. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 22): Insuect r Jack Milton, of Jackson, 
states that he has observed some injury to tomato slants in cold 
frames by cutworms during the past week. 
Louisiana. W. E. Hinds (March 26): Various s'eecies of cutworms are 
attacking yourg garden plants at Baton ?oug<?. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 26): At Columbia, from half-grown to nearly 
full-grown specimens of what is a/coarently the variegated cutworm 
( Lycoohotig ni argaritosa saucia "bn. ) have been taken since early in 
March. The countv agent of McDonald County has just reported severe 
injury on the -"?.re of a wheat field next to a wood by what was nrob- 
ably greasy cutworms (Agrotis yosilon Rott.'y. 
Arkansas. D. Isely (March 22): Cutworms (L^c oohotia st>. ) are unusually 
abundant in northwestern Arkansas. 
Kansas. H. 5. Bryson (March 25): From February 25 to March U the varie- 
gated cutworm. (L. m argarito sa saucia) wafi reported by E. G. Kelly as 
very abundant in Edwards , Finney, Hodgeman, Fore', Gray, Clark, Comanche, 
and Pratt Counties. The worms m e^e doing rrriovs injurv to fall-sown 
wheat, barley, ?.nd rye at the edees of th" fields where they moved in 
from grass and stubble lands. 
