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port, Perry county, Indiana, in December, where it was reported 

 to have worked serious injury the previous summer. When I 

 came to Ohio, in 1891, 1 found a single specimen in the collection 

 of the Experiment Station marked from Lebanon, Warren county, 

 about 30 miles north of Cincinnati. Up to the present year, 189^, 

 I had been unable to learn of its being again observed in that lo 

 cality, and had begun to hope that the single individual was either 

 a stray or that the record had been a mistake, either of which 

 may still be the case, and that Ohio was as yet free from the pest. 

 A few weeks ago 1 received it twice within one week from two 

 localities, Portsmouth and Racine, both along the Ohio river, 

 with the statement that it had, last season, done widespread and 

 serious injury. Now, any one who is at all familiar with the in 

 sect fauna and flora of southern Illinois knows that south of the 

 watershed between the Big Muddy and Ohio rivers both are ex 

 tremely southern in their nature, both plants and insects being 

 found there whose natural habitat would seem to be much farther 

 to the southward. Large areas of this section are devoted to 

 truck farming, so much so that it is known as Chicago's vege 

 table and fruit garden. Here it would seem that we might ex 

 pect to find Murgantia perfectly at home and in abundance. 

 But, as shown, we do not. I have heard nothing more from the 

 Indiana colony, as I most certainly should had it continued de 

 structive to any extent. It would appear that, of all places in 

 Ohio, the country about Cincinnati would be the place of all 

 others where colonization would take place, such colonies origi 

 nating in bugs introduced with southern-grown cabbage ; yet 

 here again we are disappointed, while farther up the river, and 

 in a locality even farther north and where we would least expect 

 it, the insect has appeared the most numerous. Now, what can 

 an entomologist make out of such a muddle as this? We all of 

 us know that this is not a haphazard world, and that there are, 

 somewhere, good reasons for this condition of affairs. But what 

 are they? This species comes to us, as it were, from out of the 

 Tropical life-zone, through the lower Sonoran and Austroriparian, 

 stopping in mid Upper Austral, but right along the line of divis 

 ion between the glaciated and unglaciated sections of the country. 

 Only in the case of the single specimen from Lebanon, Ohio, has 

 it, so far, been found within the limit of the southern range of the 

 drift. It would, indeed, be grand if we could say to those who 

 were fortunate enough to reside on the glaciated territory, "This 

 pest will not reach your locality. Have no fear of its ravages." 

 I believe that I here catch something of the spirit that prompted 

 Mr. Howard's paper ; but it is quite possible that were I to say 

 these things to our people and publish the statements, ere the 

 printer's ink had dried on the page the beastly thing would appear 



