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CoitonJice {Ai)Ms sp.,) were quite iiynrious to cotton in York, South 

 Carolina. 



Boll-icorms {HeliotJiis armigera,) were more or less injurioas to cotton 

 in Jackson and Leon, Florida, Henry and Macon, Alabama, and Titus, 

 Texas. 



Chinch-hugs {Micropus Rhyparochromun leucopteriis). — This insect, a 

 former visitant of the Atlantic coast States, appears inclined to renew 

 its old acquaintanceship in that quarter. In Orange, Virginia, it cut 

 down a superior corn-crop to an average ; in York it aifected early corn, 

 but did not molest late plantings. It was injurious to grain-crops gen- 

 erally in Prince William, and in Loudoun ravaged wheat and grass. 

 In Harrison and Livingston, Kentucky', it damaged corn. In Hamilton, 

 Ohio, it attacked oats. It was somewhat troublesome in Tuscola, 

 Michigan, and injured corn and wheat in Sauk and Columbia, AYiscon- 

 sin, but these counties were too far north for a severe visitation. It 

 inflicted greater or less injuries in several counties of Indiana upon 

 different crops, viz., Hamilton, Fayette, Carroll, and Washington. In 

 Illinois its destructive sweep was still wider, embracing Menard, San- 

 gamon, Perry, Effingham, Fayette, Jackson, Clay, Madison, Clinton, 

 Saint Clair, Massac, White, Eandolph, Cass, and Ford counties. In 

 Missouri it is reported in Ealls, DeKalb, Callaway, Carroll, Morgan, 

 Pettis, Johnson, Dallas, Pulaski, Benton, and Grand}'. It was also 

 injurious in Franklin, Osage, Linn, Miami, and Crawford, Kansas. 



Colorado hcetles {Doryphora (leccm-lineata). — This pest is making its 

 presence painfully felt in some new localities on the Atlantic coast. In 

 Salem, New Jersey, it injured late crops very seriously, and did consid- 

 erable damage in Gloucester. In Peunsj-lvauia they are noted in But- 

 ler, Clearfield, Franklin, Northampton, Perry, Bedford, Huntington, 

 and Cambria; in Northumberland they abandoned the vines and were 

 observed crawling over the pavements and streets of the villages. In 

 Caroline, Dorchester, Frederick, Queen Anne, Cecil, and Baltimore, 

 Maryland, they have been more or less destructive. In Prince William, 

 Virginia, wasps have been observed destroying them verj' rapidly. 

 They were quite injurious in Page. They were at work in Monroe. 

 Preston, Hardy, and Jeflt'erson, West Virginia ; in Nicholas, Kentucky, 

 they nearly ruined the crop. In Ohio they are noted in Perry and 

 Washington, but no serious injury- is stated. In Charlevoix, Delta, 

 Kalamazoo, and Bay, Michigan, their presence was felt in greater or 

 less devastations, but Paris-green was found to be a very effective anti- 

 dote. In Indiana their ravages were not serious ; they are reported 

 only in Clay, Posey, and Decatur counties. In White, Cumberland, 

 and Sbelby, Illinois, they inflicted more or less injury, as also in Adams, 

 Columbia, and Outagamie, Wisconsin, and in Sibley, Minnesota. They 

 were injurious in Calhoun and Woodbury-, Iowa, but in Howard they 

 were extensively destroyed by j^arasites. They are also reported in 

 Shelby, Missouri, and Dawson, Nebraska. 



Grass army-u-orms (Leucania iinipunctaj) shortened hay-crops in Eich- 

 land. South Carolina, and Heard, Georgia ; in ]\Licon, Alabama, they 

 injured late corn ; in Cheatham and Dickson, Tennessee, they were 

 destructive on grass-crops, especially German millet. They appeared 

 in Putnam, but did little damage. 



Old potato-bugs {Cantharis sp.,) were noted in Decatur and Orange, 

 Indiana, and Shelby, Illinois. 



Grasshoppers, [Caloptenns sp.) — The C. femnr-ruhnm is reported in 

 several localities in the Middle States, and between the AUegbauies and 

 the Mississippi, but its injuries do not appear very formidable. The 

 C. sprctus, the formidable grasshopper of the plains, sometimes erro 



