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INSECT INJURIES. 
The record of insect injuries is less formidable than in former years 
at this stage of the growing season. If the remaining part of the sum- 
mer and fall should receive the same immunity, this source of annoy- 
ance and loss will be of small account in the production of 1876. 
Colorado beetles, (Doryphora decem-lineate.)—This pest is diffused in 
small proportion over the Eastern and Western States. New Hamp- 
shire reports it in large numbers in Cheshire and Rockingham, but not 
so numerous in Hillsborough and Sullivan. ‘They are in nearly all 
localities of Rutland, Vermont, and have just appeared in Addison. In 
Hampden, Massachusetts, they are numerous and voracious, and have 
put in an appearance in Berkshire and Plymouth. They have just 
hatched in Washington, Rhode Island. Windham, Connecticut, reports 
their arrival, while Hartford has been successfully fighting them with 
Paris green. Their presence is more generally acknowledged in New 
York; being noted in Columbia, Orange, Albany, Westchester, Dela- 
ware, Dutchess, Ontario, Otsego, Saratoga, Warren, Suffolk, Yates, 
Erie, and Kings. In several counties they are more destructive than in 
former years. In Sussex, Warren, and Richland, New Jersey, they are 
pumerous, but have been successfully resisted by farmers. They are also 
destructive in many counties of Pennsylvania; being reported in Wyo- 
ming, Indiana, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Lehigh, Bucks, Delaware, 
Union, and Luzerne; in some localities they are more numerous than in 
any former year. Baltimore and Cecil, Maryland, are troubled with them, 
but constantly apply the Paris green. In New Kent, Virginia, they 
greatly damaged early potatoes, and are spreading over the whole coun- 
ty. They are also exceedingly troublesome in Russell, King George, 
and Prince William. They appeared early in Pocahontas, Grant, 
and Monroe, West Virginia, but rapidly disappeared. Ohio reports 
them in one county, (Perry,) but less numerous than in any year 
since their first appearance. Michigan reports them in Lenawee as 
*‘ thicker than ever,” and as less troublesome in Livingston, Delta, and 
Iosco. They were plenty in Steuben, Indiana; but in Clark they were 
not very destructive. They are quite numerous in Lake and Ogle, 
Illinois, but not very formidable in Richland, Wisconsin, Grant, Minne- 
sota, Dodge, Nebraska, and Buffalo, Dakota. In the last-named county 
their ravages increase as the drought becomes more severe. In Grant, 
West Virginia, it is noted that as the beetle disappears, the old-fashioned 
potato-bug (Epicauta vittata) re-appears. 
Hessian fly, (Cecidomyia destructor.)—This insect damages small grain 
in Snyder, Perry, Lehigh, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; in Loudoun, 
Madison, Russell, Clarke, Prince William, and Northampton, Virginia ; 
in Gordon, Butts, Clayton, Cobb, and Carroll, Georgia; in Coryell and 
Collin, Texas; in Boone, Arkansas; in Grand Traverse and Ionia, 
Michigan ; in Waseca, Watonwau, and Hancock, Minnesota; in Jack- 
son, Mitchell, Tama, and Clay, Iowa; in Phelps, Missouri, and in Cher- 
okee and Neosho, Kansas. In some cases the damage was serious. 
Weevil or midge, (Diplosis [| Cecidomyia] tritici..—This insect is noted 
in Ionia, Michigan, and in Howard, De Kalb, Hamilton, Wabash, and 
Wells, Indiana. 
Chinches, (Micropus [Rhyparochromus] leucopterus.)— These insects are 
troublesome this year only in a few counties of the Northwest, being 
more or less destructive in Ogle and Winnebago, Illinois; in Grant, 
