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their ravages were severe in some localities. Missouri reports only a 
few localities in Vernon County visited by these pests. They were 
numerous and demonstrative in Dixon County, Nebraska, and were 
present in Clay, Boone, and Merrick. They were also reported in Clay, 
Bon Homme, and Sioux Falls Counties, Dakota. 
Cut-worms, (Agrotis, sp.)—Different species of this genus appeared in 
different parts of the country: They were very destructive of corn in 
Niagara and Livingston Counties, New York; in Baltimore, Saint 
Mary’s, Washington, Howard, and Frederick Counties, Maryland; 
Clarke, Southampton, and Alexandria, Virginia; Marshall, Alabama ; 
Washington and Knox, Tennessee; Jefferson, West Virginia; Tuscola 
and Gratiot, Michigan; Huntington, Indiana; Washington, Illinois; 
and Wahsatch, Utah. 
Grub-worms, (Lachnosterna, sp.)—Grub-worms injured different crops 
in Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Montgomery and Kent, Maryland ; 
and Mercer, West Virginia. f 
Hessian fly, (Cecidomyia destructor.)—This insect cut down the wheat 
crop one-half on limestone lands in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It 
also appeared in Washington County, Maryland, and in Orange, 
Loudoun, Halifax, and Clarke, Virginia; in the last-named county it 
was very destructive, some farmers turning their animals to graze upon 
the remains of the wheat-crop. | Itis reported in Hardy, West Virginia; 
Russell, Kentucky; Franklin, La Porte, and Decatur, Indiana; and 
Wright, Missouri. 
Grass army-worm, (Lucania unipuncta.)—The farmers of Northumber- 
land County, Virginia, mowed somewhat prematurely in order to save 
their grass from the army-worm. ‘This insect was destructive in Dubois, 
Indiana; Franklin, Perry, Edwards, Llinois. 
Chinch-bug, (Micropus |Rhyparo chromus| leucopterus.)—Chinch-bugs 
injured wheat, corn, and oats to a serious extent, especially west of the 
Mississippi River. The only county east of the Alleghanies infested 
with them was Halifax, Virginia. They were troublesome in Hardy, 
West Virginia; Russell, Kentucky; Putnam, Indiana; Cass, Scott, and 
Marion, Illinois; Wright, Vernon, Phelps, Cedar, Reynolds, Ralls, Law- 
rence, Jasper, Boone, Bates, Benton, and Henry, Missouri; Howard, Wil- 
son, Neosho, Labette, Cherokee, Bourbon, and Woodson, Kansas. In La- 
bette County our correspondent saw stalks of corn free from bugs in the 
morning, but covered two or three deep on the evening of the same day 
to the height of eight or ten inches from the ground. In a few days 
such stalks would be dead and fallen down. In Green and Dane 
Counties, Wisconsin, their depredations were restrained by heavy rains. 
Wheat-midge (Diplosis tritici) is reported in Mercer and Cabell Coun- 
ties, West Virginia, and Henry and Shelby, Kentucky. 
Cotton-caterpillar or army-worm (Anomis Xyline) appeared in Suwan- 
nee, Liberty, and Leon Counties, Florida; Clarke, Saint Clair, and Wilcox, 
Alabama; Jasper, Marion, and Wilkinson, Mississippi; West Feliciana, 
Tangipahoa, Cameron, Rapides, and Carroll, Louisiana; Galveston, Vie- 
toria, and Austin, Texas. 
Boll-worm (Heliothis armigera) injured the corn-crop in Wilkinson 
County, Mississippi. . 
Cotton-lice. (Aphides.)—Lice appeared in cotton in Macon, Franklin, 
and Coweta Counties, Georgia; Saint Clair County, Alabama; and Ful- 
ton County, Arkansas. 
Our correspondent in Powhatan County, Virginia, reports an unknown 
insect in the rye, which has received the local designation of rye-flea. 
