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(Diplosis [cecidomyia] triticis,) sometimes improperly called the red weevil, 
did some damage in the spring-wheat in Grand Isle and Orleans, Ver- 
mont. It is also noted in Shiawassee, Michigan; Boone, Wisconsin; and 
DeKalb and Wabash, Indiana. In the last-named county half the wheat- 
crop was destroyed. Several new wheat-insects are reported. One in 
Blair, Pennsylvania, attacked the straw when the wheat was a few 
inches above ground. Another in Outagamie, Wisconsin, working at 
the root of the plant, caused the straw to fall down. A small white 
worm is noted as injurious in Grundy, Iowa, and a green worm in Saline, 
Kansas, injured winter-wheat. Unknown insects were also troublesome 
to wheat-growers in Waseca, Minnesota, and Hardin, Iowa. 
THE COTTON-CATERPILLAR (Anomis [Aletia] xylinae,) during July 
made some harmless incipient demonstrations, which unhappily were 
followed in August by severe injuries at numerous points in the cotton- 
belt. Its operations appear to have been confined mostly to the south- 
ern counties, as North Carolina and Tennessee report no injuries, and 
South Carolina and Arkansas in but one county each, and that not 
very serious. In Beaufort, South Carolina, a few were noted in sea- 
island cotton, growing on the mainland. Georgia reports them in four 
counties, all lying between the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, viz: 
Muscogee, Terrell, Harris,and Stewart; in the last named, the insect was 
noticed only in late plantingsin fresh lowlandsoils. They were more or 
less injurious in Jackson, Columbus, and Jefferson, Florida, and in Ma- 
rengo, Coffee, Clarke, Bullock, Lauderdale, Crenshaw, Monroe, Lowndes, 
and Hale, Alabama; in Dallas they destroyed 40 per cent., and in 
Greene 50 per cent. of the crop; in Conecuh they threatened to close it 
out entirely; in Perry they devoured rotten apples, cider-pumice, &c. 
Mississippi reports them in Rankin, Kemper, Adams, Lowndes, Coving- 
ton, Jasper, Clarke, and Marion; Louisiana, in Caddo and Concordia ; 
Texas, in Polk, Waller, Matagorda, Washington, Austin, Bastrop, La- 
vaca, Victoria, Colorado, and Marion; Arkansas in Nevada. The fol- 
lowing letter from M. F. Hartman, secretary of the Agricultural Society 
of Austin County, Texas, gives a graphic view of these pests in that 
county, especially illustrating their enormous power of propagation : 
As predicted in my last, the cotton-worm reached us last week, and devoured every 
particle that was eatable, leaves, blossoms, and small bolls. Never since my knowl- 
edge have these worms appeared in such a multitude. After having laid waste our 
fields, they thronged and blackened our lanes, roads, and highways; they penetrated 
lawns, yards, and even dwelling-houses, lying in the pathway, requiring the constant 
use of the broom to repel our loathsome guests. Hens, turkeys, and geese had a feast 
and grew fat. In this portion of our county the loss was not so severe, as the gather- 
ing had already begun and most of tbe bolls were fully grown, but the southern part, 
bordering on an extensive prairie that reaches to the Gulf of Mexico, two hundred 
miles distant, was attacked four weeks earlier, and the loss is a very severe one. 
COTTON-LICE, (Aphis, sp.)—Minute bugs or lice, resembling rust clus- 
tering round the cotton-stalk and on the under side of the leaves, 
caused the plant to shed and turn yellow in Covington, Alabama; Red 
River, Panola, Wood, and Titus, Texas; and in Bell and Clarke, Ar- 
kansas. This insect does not appear to have wrought a very serious 
amount of injury on the whole. 
CHINCH-BUGS (Micropus [Rhyparochromus] leucopterus) showed them- 
selves during August op the Atlantic slope, having been noted at sev- 
eral points in the Mississippi valley during July. Davidson and Warren, 
North Carolina, were troubled by them. In the latter strong lye of 
wood-ashes applied to the corn-stalk disposed of the pests. It was 
found necessary, however, not to allow the lye to come in contact 
with the corn-bud, as it would probably destroy it. They were de- 
