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the first brood in each locality, and concerted action on the part of the 

 planters where the remedy is to be applied will be necessary." 



Insect-injuries. — Cotton-caterpillars, {Anomis xyllncc.) — The influ- 

 ences so injurious to the cotton-crop were likewise destructive of its 

 insect-enemies. More or less annoyance is reported in Beaufort and 

 Eichland, South Carolina; in Gadsden, Florida; in Coffee, Uale, and 

 Clarke, Alabama; in Cameron and East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 

 Hancock, Mississippi, they visited sea-shore fields which have hitherto 

 escaped their ravages. In Bandera, Texas, they ate the top crop. 



Bud-worms. — An insect designated by this popular name injured corn 

 in Greenville, Middlesex, Gloucester, and Matthews, Virginia. 



Tent-caterpillars, {Clisiocampa.) — This insect was injurious to fruit 

 and forest trees in Jefferson, Mississippi. 



Tree-caterpillars, [Hyphantria textor. (?) — The insect designated as a 

 tree-caterpillar denuded trees of their foliage in Saint Mary's, Louisiana. 



Cut ivorms, [Agrotis sp.) — Some fields of wheat were ruined by this 

 insect in Washington, Illinois. A worm which from descri])tiofi appears 

 to be of this genus, injured grass-crops in Grayson, Kentuck3\ 



Chincli-hugs, [Micropus [Rliyparochromus] lencopterus.) — These insects 

 injured diflerent crops in Pittsylvania, Gloucester, Albemarle, Louisa, 

 and Orange, Virginia. They made their first appearance in the corn- 

 fields of Washington, Arkansas. They are also reported in Medina^ 

 Ohio ; in Gibson, Grant, Huntington, Madison, Scott, Decatur, Jennings, 

 W^ells, Clay, Fulton, Switzerland, Wabash, and Warren, Indiana; in 

 Marion, Cumberland, Douglas, Macoupin, Madison, Washington, Ed- 

 wards, Piatt, and Shelby, Illinois; in Walworth, Wisconsin; in Gas- 

 conade, Cass, Chariton, Laclede, Linn, Vernon, Phelps, Nodaway, Dent, 

 Newton, Perry, Stoddard, Missouri; in Jefferson, Franklin, Anderson, 

 Coffee, Tennessee; in Shelby, Jasper, and Marion, Iowa; in Mont- 

 gomery, Neosho, Labette, Brown, Crawford, and Woodson, Kansas ; in 

 Osage and Richardson, Nebraska. In some of the above localities they 

 were very destructive. 



Cahbage-ivorms {Pieris rap(s) destroyed the cabbage-crop of Medina 

 and Fairfield, Ohio. A worm not recognizable from description injured 

 the cabbage-croj) of Marion, West Virginia. 



Wheat-midge, {Diplosis tritici.) — This pest was confounded with the 

 weevil, in Orleans, Vermont. It was also noted in Anderson, Kentucky. 



Colorado beetles {JJoryphora decem-lineata) are demonstrating still far- 

 ther eastward. They have been heard from in Erie, New York ; in 

 Gloucester, New Jersey ; in Clearfield, Northampton, Columbia, and 

 Erie, Pennsylvania ; in Kent, Delaware ; in Baltimore, Dorchester, and 

 Cecil, Maryland; in Greenville, Virginia; in Jefferson, West Virginia; 

 in Clarke, Kentucky ; in Barry, Michigan ; in Switzerland, Madison, and 

 Decatur, Indiana ; in Lincoln, Nebraska. 



White grubs {Lachnosterna fiisca) injured corn in New London, Connec- 

 ticut, and Grayson, Virginia. In the last-named county as many as 110 

 worms were counted in a single hill ; they also injured grass-crops ; they 

 were more numerous than ever before. 



Grass army worms [Leucania unipuncta) were more or less destructive 

 in Adair, McLean, Livingston, Breckinridge, Taylor, and Ohio, Ken- 

 tucky ; in Marion, Jackson, Edmonds, and Montgomery, Illinois ; in 

 Saint Genevieve and Logan, Missouri. In some of these localities their 

 ravages were very severe. Another grass army-worm, i^robably La- 

 phrygma sp., was very destructive in several counties of Tennessee, being 



