428 
} 
were especially mischievous to gardens, oats, and corn in Clarke County, 
Wisconsin, where they moved southward along a zone five miles wide. 
Their unwelcome presence was also felt in Murray and Faribault Coun- 
ties, Minnesota, and they were numerous and voracious in Crawford, Potta- 
wattomie, and Woodbury Counties. lowa. Severe damages are reported 
in several counties of Missouri, Platte, Lawrence, Montgomery, Clay, 
and Saint Genevieve; in the latter the visitation was more disastrous 
than for twelve years past. They were blown away by the southwest 
winds in Marshall County, Kansas; they did some damage in Ottawa, 
immense numbers flying over the county; they were more or less de- 
structive in Washington, Smith, and Doniphan. Their ravages were 
serious in Burt, Boone, Antelope, and Washington Counties, Nebraska. 
In Clay County, Dakota, they made such havoc with the promising 
field and garden crops that many farmers in that region are entirely 
discouraged and desire to sell out and move to some other locality. 
They were also very bad in Union, Lincoln, and Hanson. Montana re- 
ports destructive visitations of grasshoppers in Lewis and Clarke Coun- 
ty, and also in Deer Lodge. 
Colorado potato-beetle, (Doryphora decem-lineata.\—In New York the 
Colorado beetles made their first appearance in Ontario County, and ef- 
fected more or less injury in Chautauqua, Erie, Seneca, and Wyoming. 
They are reported in largenumbers in several counties of Pennsylvania, 
viz, Beaver, Westmoreland, Armstrong, Indiana, Elk, Huntington, Law- 
rence, Clinton, Erie, Cambria, Juniata, and Warren; in the last-named 
county they made their first appearance; in Westmoreland, after destroy- 
ing the potato-tops, they attacked the tomatoes, and finally satiated their 
voracious appetites upon the Datura stramonium. They are reported 
in Austin County, Texas, and in Jefferson, Grant, Barbour,: Tyler, 
Brooke, Nicholas, and Mineral Counties, West Virginia. In Nicholas 
it was observed that they left untouched the Early Rose and Peachblow 
varieties. In Kentucky they infested Jefferson, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, 
and Lincoln Counties. Sixteen counties in Ohio were subjected to their 
ravages in a greater or less degree, viz, Noble, Coshocton, Medina, 
Auglaize, Butler, Columbiana, Franklin, Granger, Licking, . Lorain, 
Marion, Mahoning, Washington, Crawford, Lucas, and Van Wert. 
They were troublesome in several counties of Michigan, Lapeer, 
Calhoun, Jackson, Van Buren, Manistee, and Shiawassee. Indiana re- 
ports them in Scott, Decatur, Warren, Cass, Harrison, and Dearborn ; 
Illinois, in Morgan, Sangamon, Pope, Putnam, Carroll, Rock Island, 
and Lee; Wisconsin, in Chippewa, Pierce, Greene, and Milwaukee; 
Minnesota, in Sherburne and Stearns; Iowa, in Clinton and Pottawat- 
tomie; Missouri, in Boone; Kansas, in Ottawa; Nebraska, in» Boone 
and Thayer Counties. 
The common black potato-bug (Zpicauta [atrata| pennsylvanica) of 
Leconte is reported in Indiana and Elk Counties, Pennsylvania; Clarke 
County, Virginia; Crawford, Medina, Geauga, Lorain, and Lucas Coun- 
ties, Ohio; Decatur and Dearborn Counties, Indiana. In the last-named 
county a new insect injurious to the potato appeared, which, from im- 
perfect description, is supposed to be the Hpicauta (vittata) cinerea. In 
many of the counties above enumerated very successful efforts were 
made to exterminate these insects by the use of Paris green and other ~ 
poisons. In other counties these efforts were but partial, and urged 
with little resolution; such counties present a discouraging report. In 
Clinton County, Illinois, the lady-bug (coccinella) was reported as dam- 
aging the potatoes. It is very probable that this insect was merely 
hunting the eggs of the Colorado beetle, upon which it feeds voraciously. 
Farmers often, in this way, mistake their friends for their enemies. 
