REPORT ON NEBRASKA INSECTS. 
By LAWRENCE BRUNER, Special Agent. 
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
LINCOLN, NEBR., Nor. 20, 1889. 
Sir: In presenting a report on the insect injuries in Nebraska for the past spring 
aud summer, if isnot my intention to mention all the species that have been observed 
in the act of depredating. Neither do I expect to enter upon a discussion of their 
life histories. To do this would require altogether too much time and occupy con- 
siderable more space than could be allotted to such insects as have been repeatedly 
described in your various reports upon injurious insects. Suffice 1t, then, for me to 
mention briefly a few of the species that most attracted my attention, either by their 
appearance in unusual numbers, their more than ordinary injuries, or by their pecul- 
iar mode of attack. 
During the year most of the well-known species that are always present in more or 
less injurious numbers, were noticed at their regular seasons of appearance. These 
were, of course, expected; and, unless either very numerous or scarce, were but little 
noticed. Aside from these, few new or original observations were made during the 
active season; but several new enemies were observed to act in connection with old 
and well-known forms. 
Since my last report, some time has been devoted to the Acridide@ of North America, 
in the continuance of our work upon that family of the order Orthoptera. The latter 
work was chiefly in the line of looking up the matter of distribution, the character- 
izing of new material, and the massing of such additional species as could conven- 
iently be obtained without expense to the Department. Some little was also done in 
this connection in the study of several minor locust outbreaks in different parts of 
the country, as, for example, in Utah, Minnesota, and the White Mountain district of 
the New England States. Of these different outbreaks you already have been ad- 
vised; Mr. Otto Lugger, of the Minnesota Experiment Station, reporting on that of 
his State; Mr. C. L. Marlatt, that of New Hampshire, and myself upon that of Utah. 
LAWRENCE BRUNER. 
Prof C2 Ve RILEY, 
U. S. Entomologist. 
FALSE CHINCH BUGS. 
Karly in the year, during the month of May, two or threespecies of small 
hemipterous insects began to gather upon several farms just outside 
the city limits of Lincoln. These appeared in much larger numbers 
than is usual for the insects under consideration ; and from their size, 
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