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XYLORYCTES SATYRUS.—A very large black beetle with a short 
horn on the top or front of its head has been 
very injurious to young ash-trees in the neigh- 
borhood of Babylon, Long Island, where it has ap- 
peared in great numbers according to a letter from 
a correspondent, Mr. P. H. Foster, who states that 
%, after expending five days’ labor in digging out the 
’\*s, beetles his foreman estimated the number destroyed 
MN at one bushel, while Mr. Foster himself thought there 
’ were at least twenty-four quarts. He says: 
We We found as many as fourteen at the root of one tree 8 feet 
‘5 high, and have looked over about 6,000 trees, mostly white-ash, 
and a few European, (F. excelsior,) and out of this number 
1,500 had holes around them; these we opened and obtained the above results. I did 
not discover their depredations until they had destroyed a number of my young trees. 
Another season I shall study them more thoroughly. 
The insect alluded to is known to entomologists by the name 
of Xyloryctes (wood-borer) satyrus, of Burmeister, and is not very 
uncommon in this neighborhood, where it has been taken at the 
roots of ash-trees. The larva resembles the white grub of the corn-field, 
which is the larva of the May-bug, Lachnosterna, but is of a much larger 
size, and has a black head instead of the head being of a red color as in 
the common white grub. These larve feed on the roots of ash-trees, 
and have been taken also on liquid amber, a sweet gum, in Maryland. 
The best way to destroy them is, in spring and autumn to dig up 
around the roots of ash-trees infested and to destroy white 
grubs, of any size whatsoever, found in such situations, as it is in the 
grub state they injure the roots. The perfect beetles should also be dug 
out at the time they make their appearance as perfect insects and de- 
stroyed before they have had time to lay their eggs for another brood 
the following season. 
INSECT INJURIES.—Cotton-caterpillars (from description probably 
Anomis xyline) appeared for the first time in Sussex County, Virginia, 
stripping the foliage of the cotton-plant. The same insects, with the 
boll-worms (Heliothis armigera) were more or less destructive in Chowan, 
Pitt, Tyrrell, Beaufort, Rowan, Currituck, and Pamlico, North 
Carolina; in Lexington, Marion, and Marlborough, South Caro- 
lina; in Putnam, Stewart, Floyd, Taylor, Muscogee, and Marion, 
Georgia; in Taylor and Wakulla, Florida; in Chambers, Choctaw, 
Clinch, Worth, Talladega, and Dallas, Alabama; in Lee, Jasper, 
Grenada, and Wilkinson, Mississippi; in Tensas, Claiborne, and 
West Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana; in Brazoria, Blanco, and Chero- 
kee, Texas; in Garland, Arkansas, and in Shelby, Tennessee. 
Various preparations of Paris green and other poisons have been 
used in different portions of the cotton-growing region. Insome locali- 
ties farmers were deterred from using them by fear of casuaities to man 
and beast. In Cherokee County, Texas, false reports were rife of 
actual injuries, but these soon exploded. Ginners were also afraid to 
gin poisoned cotton, lest the product of vegetation might contain sufti- 
cient poison to be injurious. 
Grasshoppers, (Caloptenus femur-rubrun, &c.,) were reported in Carroll 
County, New Hampshire, as lively till the last of October. In Palo 
Pinto County, Texas, grasshoppers appeared September 20, and left Octo- 
ber 2, destroying all verdure, not even excepting fruit-tree foliage. Tobacco 
and corn crops were injured by them in Medina, Lorain, and Geauga 
Counties, Ohio. In Orange County, Indiana, they were destructive 
