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toes; ill such cases the crop was nearly swept. In other cases hand- 

 picking alone was successfully resorted to ; iu others, the pests were so 

 numerous and voracious that the most strenuous efforts were insuffi- 

 cient to check them. 



They were numerous in some parts of Jefferson, West Virginia. One 

 county in Ohio, Columbiana, reports them as troublesome, and two iu 

 Michigan, Manistee and Menomouee. They were present also in Orange 

 and Ohio, Indiana. In Monroe, Illinois, they covered the potato-crops. 

 Wisconsin reports them in Sauk, Douglas, Ozaukee, and Outagamie. 

 In some places the pests were fewer than last year, and iu others more 

 numerous. They were noted iu Pojie, Minnesota." In Iowa, they were 

 less numerous in Sioux than last year, while Hancock reports a greater 

 number than for three years past. They are also mentioned in the re- 

 ports from Washington, Missouri; Montgomery, Kansas, and Washing- 

 ton, Nebraska. In the West the visitation was comparatively light, 

 while in the Eastern States it appears to be approximating its cul- 

 mination. 



Grasshoppers. — The Caloptenus femur-ruhrum is noted in Sullivan, 

 !N"ew Hampshire, and Washington, Pennsylvania. In Craig, Virginia, 

 it destroyed tobacco, and was heard from in Jefferson, West Virginia, 

 in Belmont, Noble, and Vinton, Ohio, and in Marquette and Mecosta, 

 Michigan. An insect described as a "small red-headed grasshopper" 

 thronged the meadows of Monroe, Tennessee, where they have been ob- 

 served for several years, but not so numerously before this year. A 

 very destructive grasshopper is reported in Lincoln, of the same State. 



Two counties iu Wisconsin, Dodge and Outagamie, report great 

 destruction, the one in wheat and the other in clover, by a species of 

 Caloptenus which cannot be identified from the description. In Minne- 

 sota the 0. spretus was very destructive iu several counties. They riddled 

 the east half of Renville and made destructive raids through the north- 

 east of Noble. They cut down the crops of Blue Earth 25 per cent, and 

 33 per cent, in Redwood. They were exceedingly numerous and de- 

 structive in Watonwan, Brown, Nicollet, and Cottonwood. They did 

 less damage in Morton, Sibley, and Lyon. They greatly damaged 

 cereals and fruits in Fremont and Audubon, Iowa. Nodaway, Clay, 

 Clinton, Franklin, Henry, Bates, and Platte, Missouri, complain of 

 serious injuries. In Kansas they left tokens of their mischievous pres- 

 •ence in Bourbon, Jackson, Miami, Neosho, Shawnee, Wyandotte, An- 

 derson, Atchison, Brown, Johnson, and Marshall. In many cases a 

 threatened visitation was entirely escaped, or left but light injury behind. 

 In Nebraska they were more or less severe in Antelope," Cass, John- 

 son, Richardson, and Boone. In Hull the insects were largely destroyed 

 by parasites. From two to eleven worms were observed upon the body 

 •of a single grasshopper, feeding upon their internal parts, and leaving 

 •only an empty shell. In Furnas at least a third of the insects noticed 

 were infested with red parasites. This pest is evidently declining very 

 fast, and the earnest hopes of a cessation of their ravages expressed by 

 our correspondents appear to have a solid foundation iu facts. 



A correspondent in Le Roy, Coffee County, Kansas, reports a visita- 

 tion of a severity approaching that of last year. Grasshoppers here cut 

 the wheat in the head, devoured the corn as fast as it came up, and 

 stood guard over the roots. They demolished the potatoes and garden- 

 vegetables by wholesale, even swimming streams to find new ground to 

 forage on. They devoured the fruit, foliage, and even the bark of fruit- 

 trees. Tiiey were here also greatly infested with parasites. 



Chinch-bugs, {Micropus [Bhyparochro^nus] leucopter us.)— This insect 



