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says that no doubt otker broods will be more numerous, and fears great 
destruction. 
Mr. Chamberlain, editor of the Saint Joseph Herald, Michigan, has ' 
forwarded undoubted specimens of the Doryphora decem-lineata, covered 
with a parasitic mite of a dirty reddish-brown color, and very much 
resewbling a mite Uropoda, which also infests dung-beetles. These 
mites adhere to certain dung and carrion beetles, by the tail or a long 
tube. Dr. Packard, however, states that they attach themseives to their 
host by a product like silk, which hardens on exposure to the air. 
APPLE-TWIG BORER.—Amphicerus (Bostrichus) bicaudatus, or the ap- 
ple-twig borer, has been very plentiful and injurious in the West and 
Northwest on apple twigs, grape-canes, We. 
INSECT INJURIES—The farmer’s insect enemies have already demon- 
strated their mischievous presence in different parts of the country. 
The Hessian fly (Cecidomyia destructor) is at work in the wheat-fields 
of Kent County, Delaware; Fulton County, Pennsylvania; Clarke, 
Loudoun, and Rockingham Counties, Virginia; Berkeley County, West 
Virginia ; and Stone and Maries Courties, Missouri. 
Different species of the Agrotis, commonly designated as cut-worms, 
have begun their ravages in corn, cotton, and other crops in the South 
and West, especially in the following counties, viz: Queen Anne, Mary- 
land; Clarke, Virginia; Suwannee, Florida; Morgan, Alabama; Wood- 
ruff, Arkansas; Greene and Gibson, Tennessee ; Lucas, Ohio; Warren, 
Wells, Posey, and Pike, Indiana; Perry and Bond, Illinois; and Noda- 
way, Missouri. In many localities these pests are very numerous. In 
Bond County, Illinois, the late hot weather killed many of them. They 
were also destructive in the winter-grain of Bourbon County, Ne- 
braska. / 
The chinch-bug (Micropus | Rhyparochromus] leucopterus) is reported 
in several counties west of the Mississippi River as depredating upon 
wheat, oats, and young corn. The injuries were not very perceptible at 
the date of our reports, but the immense numbers of the insects give 
very great uneasiness as to the future. They were numerous in Perry 
County, Llinois; in Benton, Boone, Franklin, Perry, Pulaski, Jasper, 
and Maries Counties, Missouri. Some complaints also come from Butler, 
Neosho, and Labette Counties, Kansas. 
Two species of the grasshopper, the Caloptenus spretus, and the C. 
Semur-rubrum, have done very considerable mischief already. From 
our reports, it is not easy in all cases to decide which of these species 
is operating ina particular locality. Their most serious ravages appear 
to have been in Texas, and in the States and Territories west of the 
Missouri River. In Palo Pinto County, Texas, they had nearly destroyed 
the wheat and oats. They were also very destructive in San Saba, 
Gillespie, Burnet, Bandera, Medina, Atascoosa, and Lampasas Counties. 
In Medina County they hatched till May 5, when they left on a grand 
northern summer tour. In Atascosa County they ate up cotton and all 
kinds of vegetation, and the seeond planting of crops was entirely 
destroyed. In Monroe County, Iowa, swarms of ‘red-legged locusts,” 
C. femur-rubrum, had arrived on the 283th of May, and were supposed 
to have come trom Texas. The same were devouring the winter-grain 
in Cuming County, Nebraska. In Hall County they appeared ten weeks 
earlier than last year. Immense masses of them passed through Burt 
County northeastwardly, leaving detachments strong enough for serious 
mischief behind them. They appeared in Clay County, Dakota, May 
23. Thev appeared earlier and more numerous than ever in Edwards 
County, Illinois. 
