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Wyoming, Jefferson, Orange, and Erie, New York. In Niagara the 

 eggs were extensively destroyed by other insects. New Jersey com- 

 ])lains of a visitation -in Atlantic, Burlington, Monmouth, Gamden, 

 Gloucester, Hudson, Sussex, and Salem. In Pennsylvania they were 

 noted in Cumberland, Westmoreland, Bucks, Columbia, McKeau, 

 Armstrong, Forest, Clinton, Lancaster, Butler, Bedford, Northumber- 

 land, Wayne, Indiana, Lehigh, Lycoming, Montour, Tioga, Washington, 

 Dauphin, Luzerne, and Susquehanna. They were quite destructive in 

 Kent and Sussex, Delaware. Maryland reports them in Caroline, Wor- 

 cester, Frederick, Carroll, Baltimore, Dorchester, Harford, Wicomico, 

 Cecil, and Howard. In Virginia their mischievous presence was felt in 

 Culpeper, Eoanoke, Spottsylvauia, Augusta, Orange, Cumberland, 

 Craig, Westmoreland, and Prince William. They also appeared, too 

 late for early crops, in Richland, Louisiana. They did slight damage 

 in Warren and Grundy, Tennessee. More or less injury was done in 

 Wetzel, Tucker, Morgan, Marion, Jefferson, Mineral, Pendleton, Mercer, 

 Hancock, Monroe, Preston, and Mason, West Virginia; in Jefferson, 

 Spencer, Shelby, Lincoln, and Scott, Kentucky ; in Trumbull, Perry, 

 Morrow, Coshocton, Medina, Fairfield, and Crawford, Ohio ; in Menom- 

 onee. Branch, Van Buren, Tuscola, Lake, Grand Traverse, Charle- 

 voix, and Monroe, Michigan; in Eush, Decatur, Pike, and Tippe- 

 canoe, Indiana; in Lake, Madison, De Kalb, Fulton, Ogle, Macon, 

 Iroquois, Hancock, De Wittj and Cook, Illinois; in Douglas, Columbia, 

 Clark, and Green, Wisconsin; in Wright, Isanti, Sherburne, and Mille 

 Lacs, Minnesota; in Dubuque, Story, and Howard, Iowa; in Vernon, 

 Missouri; in Labette, Kansas; in Franklin, Mitchell, and Antelope, 

 Nebraska. At various points the insects were successfully resisted 

 with Paris green and other poisons; at others domestic fowls were 

 turned into the potato-field, and found to be excellent scavengers. No 

 reports of injury to the fowls. 



Chinch-hufjs, {Micropus [Rhyparocnromus] leucopUrus) . — These insects 

 do not appear to have recommenced operations on any considerable 

 scale in the Bast. Halifax and Prince William, Virginia, found them 

 somewhat troublesome in corn and wheat. They are also reported in 

 De Soto, Mississippi ; Limestone, Texas ; Edwards, Clinton, Marion, 

 Winnebago, Ogle, Macon, Hancock, Crawford, and Carroll, Illinois; 

 Sauk, Vernon, Iowa, Columbia, Walworth, Green, Milwaukee, Dodge, 

 La Fayette, and Crawford, Wisconsin ; Gasconade, Vernon, Stone, Mont- 

 gomery, Ballinger, and Newton, Missouri; Labette, Cherokee, Wood- 

 son, and Montgomery, Kansas. 



Cotton-insects. — Caterpillars {Anomis xijlince ; Aletia argillacea of Hub- 

 ner) were noted in Limestone, Bosque, Walter, and Matagorda, Texas, 

 and in Woodruff, Arkansas ; injuries small. Boll- worms {HeUothis armi- 

 gera) are reported in Polk, Texas; cotton-lice {Aphides) in Chowan, Per- 

 quimans, Camden, and Edgecombe, North Carolina. In the last named 

 it is specified that the insect in question is the blue or root jouse, more 

 destructive than the ordinary leaf-louse. These insects are also re- 

 l)orted in Wayne and Jasper, Mississippi; in Smith, Texas; and in Van 

 Buren, Arkansas, (iottou-grass-worms were destructive to cotton dur- 

 ing two weeks in Hamilton, Texas. Web-worms (?) are reported in 

 Travis, Texas. 



Miscellaneous. — Apj^le- worms {Garpocapsa pomonella) were destructive 

 to fruit in Franklin, Vermont; Columbia, Oregon; and Salt Lake, Utah; 

 fi'uit-caterpillars {Clisiocampa) in Androscoggin and Franklin, Maine ; 

 coddling-moths, cabbage-worms, {Pieris rapcv, (&c.,) and currant or goose- 

 berry worms in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania; bud- worms (?) in Hay- 



