" Native " locusts, while perhaps not to be dreaded equally as much as the species 

 just spoken of, certainly can commit an equal amount of injury when size and numbers 

 of the insects are taken into consideration. They cannot, it is true, get up and fly away 

 to regions new, but they are equally rapid breeders, with favouring conditions They 

 can be destroyed equally as well, if not better, than cin t!ie Rocky Mountain species, on 

 account of their local restrictions, even in the regions where found. 



Mr. South wick had noticed Melanoplus femur-rubrum flying to the tops of grasses 

 towards sunset in the fields near New York City. 



Mr. O.sborn had noticed the same habit. He spoke of the great difiicalty of estimat- 

 ing the damage done by grasshoppers. Some discussion followed upon this point by 

 Messrs. Southwick and Atkinson. 



Mr. Cook stated that M. feviui'-ruhrum had been very abundant in Michigan for 

 three or four years back, but that he had no ditficulty in estimating the damage to oats. 

 He thought that the outlook in Michigan was not at all serious, and considered that 

 perhaps Mr. Bruner's prediction was too doleful. 



Mr. Bruner stated that we cannot take any chances. The black picture is justifiable 

 if we make people work to destroy the insects and the local species have it in their power 

 to become serious pests. 



Mr. Webster stated that fhnur-ruhrum is the species which is doing the damage in 

 Ohio. He had noticed a fungus parasite working to a considerable extent near 

 Columbus. 



Mr. Smith thought that Mr. Bruner's point that it is unsafe to predict comparative 

 immunity on account of a tendency of farmers to shirk work was a very good one. 



Mr. Cook stated that there was another side to be considered, for if the entomologists 

 predicted danger and the farmers did no work and the plague did not come, the entomol- 

 ogists would be forever discredited. 



Mr. Weed spoke of the cotton worm, and stated that where the planters were always 

 ready with their stock of Paris green they were in condition to fight the worm whenever 

 it appeared in numbers. 



Mr. Webster thought it was always best to tell the truth and to frankly admit all 

 inability to give valid predictions. 



Mr. Fletcher was of the opinion that in all probability predictions can be made more 

 confidently in the westein country worked over by Mr. Bruner than in Canada and the 

 region spoken of by Professor Cook. 



CHILD SACCHARALIS Irs NEW MEXICO. 



BY C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, LAS CRUCES, N. MEX. 



On July 8, 1S91, I found a considerable number of stalks of young corn on the college 

 farm infested with a borer. The borer enters by a hole in the stalk a short distance 

 above the ground, and bores down into the root. It makes its burrow exactly down 

 through the centre of the stalk, and some go upward a considerable distance also. The 

 infested stalks are easily known by the tassel and most of the top being entirely withered 

 and white or yellow. Some stalks showed the work of more than one borer evidently, 

 unless the sami^ one had eaten out and then eaten in in other places. In several stalks 

 the live chry.salids of the borer were found near the bottom of their burrows, in the root, 

 about even with the surface of the ground. From these pupse two of the moths were 

 bred, issuing July 12th. Sorghum grown near the infested corn on the college grounds 

 could not be found infested by the borer. The same borers were sent to the college from 

 Eddy, New Mexico, with report of much damage to corn. In many cases on the college 



