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noticed in the preceding years have now almost completely penetrated the 

 Appalachian highland, and in Pennsylvania and Maryland they have nearly 

 united with the Lancaster colony. 



i8j-i.. From the region west of New York and Pennsylvania but few 

 records are found in this year's reports, although the beetle was numerous 

 and destructive in almost all of the counties of Ontario. The center of 

 interest was along the Atlantic coast, where in many places it was abundant 

 and did much damage. It was found in Quebec in small numbers and in 

 western Vermont (C. J. S. Bethune). It was also reported from Williams- 

 town. Massachusetts (J. S. Kingsley), and from western Connecticut (New 

 York Weekly Tribune, August 26, 1874). I n New York it was recorded 

 from Allegany, Chautauqua, Delaware, Erie, Madison, Tioga, Wayne, and 

 Wyoming Counties ; in New Jersey from Burlington, Gloucester, Monmouth, 

 and Salem Counties ; in Delaware from Kent County ; in Maryland from 

 Allegany, Baltimore, Caroline, Cecil, Carroll, Dorchester, Frederick, Har- 

 ford, Montgomery, Prince George, and Queen Anne C ount ies ; an d in 

 Virginia from Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene, Highland, Page, and Prince 

 William Counties (Mo. Rep. U. S. Dept. Agr., 1874). Almost every county 

 in Pennsylvania was invaded by the beetles, and at many places they were 

 numerous and did considerable damage. At Germautown they swarmed 

 (Riley, 1874), as also at Cape May, New Jersey (New York Weekly Tribune, 

 July 22, 1874). 



1875. At the beginning of this year the beetle was distributed along the 

 seacoast from New York to Chesapeake Bay, and by the end it had overrun 

 most of the remaining territory of the coast States. It reached Boston, 

 Massachusetts, in the autumn. It penetrated farther into Vermont and was 

 reported from New Hampshire and Maine. It was found in the central 

 portion of the latter State, which led Fernald to believe that it was taken 

 there by rail. It was reported from Skowhegan, Somerset County, from 

 Saco, in York County, and Temple, in Franklin County, Maine 'Packard), and 

 it seems to have penetrated as far as the Kennebec River (C. H. Fernald). 

 In New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland it was 

 generally distributed ; but in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky it had 

 not extended any farther south. 



1876. Eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Cape Cod do not seem to 

 have been occupied until 1876. The insects were abundant and did consid- 

 erable damage in many of the counties of the New England States. It is 

 related that they were washed ashore in many places in such numbers as to 

 poison the air with the "noxious vapors" arising from their decaying 

 bodies. The captain of a New Loudon vessel relates ' ' that while at sea 

 (Long Island Sound ) they boarded him in such numbers that the hatches had 

 to be closed." At Cape May, Long Branch, Rockaway, and Newport they 

 proved a great nuisance to the pleasure seekers, being crushed and killed in 



