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lifigton, New Jersey. In Butler, Penusylvauia, Paris-greeu is pronounced 

 a failure ; resort was here bad to patent preparations, but the most ef- 

 fective method of resistance was to shake the bugs into a box and dis- 

 patch them. In Union Paris-green and lime were also effective. In 

 Adams and several other counties the virtues of Paris-green were utilized 

 by a persistent and intelligent application. In Dauphin and Forest the 

 insects appeared to be departing, leaving no great damage behind them, 

 especially upon late plantings. They Avere more or less mischievous 

 in Armstrong, Prauklin, Lycoming, Huntingdon, Chester, Phila- 

 delphia, York, Perry, Clearfield, Northampton, Washington, Indiana, 

 Lancaster, Beaver, Elk, McKean, Luzerne, and Cameron. Maryland 

 notes their presence in Alleghany, Frederick, Baltimore, Carroll, Prince 

 George, Hartford, and Cecil. They were also in Culpeper, Highland, Fau- 

 quier, and Prince William, Virginia; in Harrison, Brooke, Cabell, Hardy, 

 Hancock, Jefferson, Pendleton, and Kandolph, West Virginia. In the 

 last-named county the beetles were destroyed by an insect called the 

 soldier-bug, of which a specimen would be very acceptable. They 

 injured crops in Lawrence and Bradley, Tennessee, and in Kockcastle, 

 Shelby, Jefferson, Carroll, Harrison, Taylor, Anderson, Lincoln, Grant, 

 Scott, and Spencer, Kentucky. In Ohio they appear to have been less 

 destructive, and more amenable to remedies, especially Paris-green. 

 They are here reported in Trumbull, Delaware, Erie, Lucas, Athens, 

 Licking, Meigs, Champaign, Noble, and Columbiana. They are noted in 

 Branch, Monroe, Lenawee, Antrim, Bay, Van Buren, and Menomonee, 

 Michigan, but appear to have been more threatening and troublesome 

 than seriously injurious. In Cass, Indiana, they are becoming perceptibly 

 less numerous under the influence of some insect enemy destroying them. 

 They were also declining in Tippecanoe; they were destroyed by the 

 persistent use of Paris-green in Marion. They are noted in Elkhart, 

 Clay, Jasper, Harrison, Orange, Marshall, Jennings, Putnam, Wabash, 

 and Perry. Parasites of some kind destroyed most of their eggs in 

 Putnam, Illinois ; they were also more or less destructive in Cumberland, 

 Hancock, Kankakee, Ogle, Whiteside, Kock Island, Morgan, Marion, 

 Ford, Grundy, Caswell, Macon, Madison, Tazewell, Carroll, Wayne, and 

 Sahuyler. A discreet and energetic use of remedies saved the crops in 

 several counties, aud limited the injuries in others. In sev^eral counties 

 of Wisconsin they were numerous, but here, also, the value of efforts to 

 resist the ravages of the beetle were illustrated by excellent results. 

 The insects are noted in Pierce, Greene, Iowa, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Wal- 

 worth, Clark, Columbia, Douglas, Green, Lake, Door, and Outagamie. 

 West of the Mississippi Eiver they were less mischievous. Minnesota 

 reports them in four counties: Kamsey, Chisago, Steele, and Meeker; 

 Iowa in six: Cass, Howard, Clinton, Lamar, Pottawatomie, and Louisa; 

 Missouri in three : Nodaway, Phelps, and Reynolds. Kansas in three : 

 Woodson, Greenwood, and Mitchell. Nebraska in two : Antelope and 

 Thayer. In Mitchell, Kansas, the eggs were destroyed by an insect which, 

 from the description, was probably the lady-bug, {CoccineUa.) In 

 Shelby County, Kentucky, a novel expedient is reported as successful ; 

 fields infested with beetles were plowed up and paddled to destroy the 

 insects with their eggs. In Nodaway, Missouri, the insects were de- 

 stroyed by a parasite resembling a pumpkin-fly. 



Grasshoppers. One species [Caloptenns femur-ruhrum) was somewhat 

 demonstrative in the East ; Delaware and Jefferson Counties, New York, 

 note their presence, but with slight damage, and declining numbers. In 

 Jefferson, West Virginia, they were destructive on young clover ; in 

 Fairfield, Ohio, their operations vv'ere merely local ; they are also men- 



