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grasshopper, is reported at various isolated localities in tLe Eastern 

 States and in the Mississippi Valley. In Windsor, Vermont, Bedford, 

 Pennsylvania, Hocking, Ohio, and Menomonee, Michigan, they had 

 appeared, but no injuries were noted. They were more or less destruc- 

 tive in Trousdale, Tennessee, and in Harrison, Ohio. In Livingston, 

 Kentucky, they were reported as destroying tobacco-i)lants in old ground. 

 A farmer in Jefferson, West Virginia, succeeded in destroying thirty 

 bushels of these pests by attaching a seine to the rear of a horse-rake, 

 and driving through a held thickly covered with them. 



A species, not easy to identify from the description given by our cor- 

 respondents, injured corn on stiff swamp-lands in Clarke, Alabama. A 

 great cloud of these insects was seen moving eastward over the south 

 part of Autauga, Alabama. A grasshopper, very different from any 

 before seen, was noted in Outagamie, Wisconsin. 



The C. Spretus, or migratory western grasshopper, appeared in sev- 

 eral counties of Minnesota. Blue Earth offered a bounty for their de- 

 struction. About 20,000 bushels were collected and destroyed, at a cost 

 of $32,000, without perceptibly diminishing their numbers. I'hey were 

 very destructive in Kicollet, McLeod, and Todd ; but in Wright, Cotton- 

 wood, and Mille Lacs they were comparatively innocuous. 



In Iowa, Montgomery County had a very destructive visitation in the 

 western part, the greatest injury being to the corn-crop. They are also 

 noted in Lyons, Audubon, Cherokee, Adams, Mills, Cass, Woodbury, 

 and Harrison. They did serious damage in the western part of Cald- 

 well, Missouri, and in Daviess and Vernon. They swept all crops in 

 Clay; but their injuries were comparatively trifling in Harrison. In 

 Carroll they chewed tobacco. 



In Hunt, Texas, they were injurious to the cotton-plant. 



Kansas reports, as usual, a very serious amount of damage. In Mar- 

 shall, three-fourths of the crops were destroyed, and equal damage sus- 

 tained in Douglas and Doniphan. They were very bad in Neosho, 

 Franklin, Jefferson, Wyandotte, Woodson, Nemaha, Miami, Cloud, 

 Brown, Anderson, Allen, Republic, Johnson, and Osage. Lighter visi- 

 tations are reported in Sumner, Shawnee, Eeno, Jackson, Howard, and 

 Crawford. In Franklin, the insects bore upon their bodies a destruc- 

 tive red parasite. This parasite was also noticed in Washington, to- 

 gether with a green fly, laying eggs in the body of the insect. In Miami, 

 a grape-vine was saved by mulching with night-soil. 



In Nebraska, they are reported as more or less injurious in Nuckolls, 

 Franklin, Clay, Anteloj)e, Johnson, Cass, Otoe, Gage, Hall, Knox, 

 Madison, Stanton, and Eichardson. 



Cut-worms, {Agrotis sp.) — Different species of this genus are reported. 

 In Franklin, Vermont, they injured corn; and in New London, Con- 

 necticut, corn, potatoes, and beans. Saratoga, Wyoming, Dutchess, 

 and Genesee, New York; Westmoreland and Armstrong, Indiana; 

 Washington, Pennsylvania; Caroline, Harford, and Montgomery, 

 Maryland; Greenville, Virginia; Yadkin, North Carolina; Fannin, 

 Georgia ; and Madison, Florida, all report injury to field-crops. In 

 Bandera, Texas, they cut off" four-fifths of the cotjon-crop. They were 

 also injurious in Marion, West Virginia; Mahoning, Ohio; Van Buren, 

 Michigan ; and Maries and Montgomery, Missouri. They were especially 

 destructive to sod-corn. 



Colorado potato-beetle, {Borypliora decem-lineata.) — This insect has in- 

 creased its destructive operations in the East, with serious demonstra- 

 tions at various points in the West. It is reported in Oneida, Niagara, 

 Queens, Rockland, Westchester, Delaware, Montgomery, Saratoga, 



