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shortened oats-crops in Halifax, Virginia, and would have been very in- 

 jurious in Orange but for heavy rains; in Loudoun they were noted iu 

 wheat, but not iu corn. In Jefiersou, West Virginia, they infested wheat 

 and Hungarian grass. Indiana reports them iu Madison and Ohio Coun- 

 ties. In Illinois, Henderson, Carroll, Lake, Ogle, Cook, and Edwards 

 sufifered considerable loss iu wheat, corn, and other cereals ; in some cases 

 their numbers and voracity were appalling. In Wisconsin they were very 

 injurious to grain-crops in Juneau, Sauk, Waukesha, Dodge, Green Lake, 

 Iowa, Jackson, Milwaukee, Crawford, Monroe, Vernon, and Walworth. 

 In Washington they made their first appearance, but too late to do much 

 damage. In several cases the advent of cold rains saved crops from de- 

 struction. They were destructive also in Clayton, Iowa, as also in Noda- 

 way, Pettis, and Holt, Missouri. In Butler, Kansas, they swarmed in 

 the early season, but the later rains greatly repressed their activity ; they 

 were present also in Franklin and Brown. They injured cereal-crops in 

 Johnson, Richardson, and Washington, Nebraska. 



Grass army-worms, {Leucania unipuncta, prob.) — This insect ap- 

 peared in Lincoln, Maine, early in August, and destroyed some fields of 

 grain and other crops. In Newport, Rhode Island, they overran several 

 fields, eating all the grass and most of the cereals, including some corn- 

 fields. They were here fully as destructive as iu 1861. They also ap- 

 peared in Cambria and Chester, Pennsylvania ; in Frederick, Mary- 

 land ; in Craig, Grayson, and Augusta, Virginia ; Tucker, Randolph, 

 and Nicholas, West Virginia. Insects called army- worms were destruc- 

 tive upon the oats-crop of Ohio. In Fulton, where they had pre- 

 viously been comparatively unknown, they came by millions, cutting 

 the stalks of oats and leaving the ground covered with the grain. 

 Hancock lost 60 per cent, of the crop, which was also greatly injured 

 in Henry, Van Wert, Williams, Fulton, Montgomery, Mercer, Au- 

 glaize, Crawford, Delaware, Lucas, Union, Warren, Morrow, and 

 Adams. In Licking the general destruction of oats was supplemented 

 by serious injury to the corn. They cut off the leaves and head of the 

 oats just ready to harvest. The insect is described as resembling the 

 cut-worm, but a little lighter colored, being a light brown. In some cases 

 they attacked every green thing. In Monroe and Branch, Michigan, 

 they destroyed not only oats, but grass, corn, wheat, and rye. They 

 are reported also in Franklin, La Porte, Whitley, and De Kalb, Indiana, 

 and in Alexander and Ogle, Illinois. 



Cotton-insects. — Reports of insect-injuries to the cotton-crop are 

 very rare. Cater])illars {Anomis xylinae, [Aletia argillacea, Hub.]) ap- 

 peared in Early, Georgia, and in Jackson and Columbia, Florida. Boll- 

 worms (HeliotMs armigera) were more numerous than for eight years 

 in Lowndes, Mississippi. Lice {Aphis^ sp.) were troublesome in Caddo, 

 Louisiana. In Covington, Alabama, an insect, designated as "gnats 

 or lice," never before seen in that region, caused widespread injury. 

 They cause an exudation from the plant, which, on drying, leaves a 

 dusty powder; their punctures cause speedy death to the plant. 



Miscellaneous. — Fruit-caterpillars {Clisio campa) destroyed many 

 apples in Franklin, Oxford, and Androscoggin, Maine, and in Platte, 

 Missouri. Coddling moths {Carpocapsa pomonella) injured apples in 

 Orleans, Vermont ; Manistee, Michigan ; and Holt, Missouri. The borer 

 (JEgeria tipuliformis) injured currant-bushes in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 

 The grape-vine borer {JE. polistiformis) was destructive iu Holt, Missouri. 



The weevil {Biplosis tritici) is reported in Piscataquis and Waldo, 

 Maine; Howard, Indiana; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Washington, 

 Nebraska. The curculio {Conotrachelus nenuphar) greatly injured plums 



