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tionedin Livingston, Kentucky. Another species {O. spretus) has wrought 

 terrible havoc in many counties of the Northwest. Our correspondence 

 last year forewarned us of a destructive visitation of this pest from the 

 immense number of eggs deposited during the close of the last season. 

 The severe winter, it was hoped, had mostly destroyed these eggs, but 

 still countless millions survived in some counties, and now threaten to 

 destroy every growing crop. Many farmers refused to put in crops in 

 the presence of this exi3ected nuisance. In Wisconsin, they were de- 

 structive in Brown, Clark, Door, and Outagamie. Minnesota, however, 

 has received the most terrible visitation. In Jackson, while yet too 

 young to fly, the insects destroy all the grain-crops and gardens. Here 

 they rise in the air during the daytime, and settle upon the crops at night. 

 Their movements are very erratic ; they suddenly disappear, and as 

 suddenly return. In Faribault, they began to wing about June 20, and 

 in two or three days to fly ; they always move with the wind, and not over 

 five or eight miles per^ day. In Cottonwood, they have swept 95 per 

 cent, of the grain and vegetable crops ; thousands of acres of wheat are 

 l)erfectly bare. They were first noted here about June 12, 1873, when 

 they remained about two months, laying their eggs and destroying the 

 crops generally 5 they began to hatch in April, 1874, and began to fly about 

 June 20; every day the air is full of their swarming myriads, but myriads 

 still remain. In Eenville, river farms are entirely stripped of wheat ; 

 though winging fast, they seem to recruit full as many as they send away. 

 In Martin, the crops are totally destroyed ; it is stated that people must 

 here have help or they must emigrate. They are also very bad in Lyon, 

 Watonwan, and Rock. In Iowa they ruined the wheat-crop of Harrison 

 as well as the corn, and the young apple-trees ; in Bueua Vista they had 

 just commenced flying, and were seriously threatening the crops ; in Car- 

 roll a few exhausted pioneers of the main army had fallen, but had not 

 done any damage; they had left Cherokee after doing some injury ; 

 they were also noted in Tama, Lyons, Sioux, Hancock, Pocahontas, 

 Emmett, Humboldt, and Webster. Within comparatively narrow range 

 this scourge appears to have been terribly severe. 



Tent-caterpillars, {Clisio campa.) This insect was very severe on fruit- 

 trees in Franklin, Maine. In Somerset it destroyed 1,000 acres of poplar- 

 trees. In Hartford, Connecticut, it depleted the apple-crop 10 per 

 cent.; it was also destructive in Tallahatchee, Mississijipi- 



Canker-worms, {Anisopteryx vernata,) have infested a few orchards in 

 Plymouth, Massachusetts. 



Apple-worms, {Carpocapsa, pomonella.) These insects are reported in 

 Monroe, West Virginia; Ionia and Antrim, Michigan; Hamilton and 

 Perry, Indiana ; Hancock, Illinois ; Jetferson, Iowa ; Daviess, Missouri ; 

 and Salt Lake, Utah. 



Gurculio, {ConotracJielits nenuphar.) Keported in Grainger, Tennessee; 

 Crawford, Ohio ; and Antrim, Michigan. 



Bosebugs, {Macrodactylus subspinosus.) Injured cultivated grapes in 

 Washington, Kansas. After they left, a cottony substance appeared 

 under the leaves, from which proceeded a larva that in some cases strip- 

 ped the vine bare of fruit and leaves. An unknown worm destroyed 

 the grape-vines of Salt Lake, Utah. Various fruit-insects were destruc- 

 tive in Franklin, Kentucky, Nodaway and Moniteau, Missouri. The 

 iflums were devoured by unknown insects in Marion, Iowa. 



Gut-icorms, {Agrotis, sp.) In Saint Mary's, Maryland ; Green, North 

 Carolina ; Wayne, Georgia ; Tunica, Mississippi ; Tensas, Louisiana ; 

 Arkansas, Arkansas ; Bay and Saginaw, Michigan ; Dodge and Green 

 Lake, Wisconsin ; San Pete, Iron, and Utah, Utah. 



Measuring-worms. Injured fruit and forest trees in Highland, Ohio. 



