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structive to wheat in Hunt, Texas. In Boone and Winnebago, Illinois, 
they ruined spring-wheat and barley and threatened the corn. In 
Dunn, Wisconsin, it was noticed that they.did not touch the Odessa 
wheat when any other variety was gtowing near it. They were de- 
structive to spring-wheat also in Washington, Brown, Columbia, Fond 
du Lac, Green, Monroe, Calumet, Grant, Jackson, Jefferson, Juneau, La 
Crosse, Portage, Pierce, Sauk, Vernon, Walworth, Waukesha, and 
Winnebago. In some cases, after destroying wheat, they attacked 
the corn, and where the grain was too hard for their consumption 
they stripped the blades. They are also reported in Jackson, lowa ; 
Atchison, Missouri; Nemaha, Neosho, El Dorado, Washington, and 
Smith, Kansas; and in Gage, Saunders, and Richardson, Nebraska. 
BOLL-WORMS (Heliothis armigera) are reported in Lee, Mississippi, and: 
in Nacogdoches, Smith, Hunt, Rusk, and Lamar, Texas. 
GRASSHOPPERS.—Insects bearing this popular designation are re- 
ported in the Middle, Southern, and Northwestern States. In the latter 
ease there is no difficulty in identifying them with the dreaded Calopte- 
nus spretus, which, it is believed, confines its visitation to the regions 
west of the seventeenth meridian. An examination of the map shows 
that all the counties of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri reporting the 
ravages of this insect lie wholly or partly west of that meridian. In 
Minnesota they were more or less destructive in McLeod, Yellow Medi- 
cine, Faribault, Redwood, Meeker, Nicollet, Blue Earth, Nobles, Stevens, 
Stearns, Todd, Rock, Jackson, Pope, Renville, Chippewa, Swift, and 
Kandiyohi ; in lowa, in Crawford, Clay, Harrison, Calhoun, Humboldt, 
Cherokee, Sioux, Greene, Montgomery, Audubon, Guthrie, Pottawatta- 
mie, Pocahontas, and Sac; Missouri reports them only in Atchison. 
Kansas had a very severe visitation in some counties, viz: Mitchell, 
McPherson, Pawnee, Washington, Ellis, Reno, Norton, Graham, Rice, 
and Republic. Nebraska, however, received the brunt of the destruc- 
tive invasion, reporting them in Furnas, Knox, Osage, Cuming, Dodge, 
Webster, Franklin, Saunders, Seward, Thayer, Boone, Lancaster, Platte, 
Hall, Wayne, Merrick, Antelope, and Richardson. <A detailed summary 
of the injuries inflicted will be found in our “extracts from correspond- 
ence.” The farmers of this region, especially those west of the Missouri, 
have suffered an incalculable disaster, and great suffering must be the 
result. Our correspondent in Osage, Nebraska, after carefully noting 
the incubation of these insects in a field of oat-stubble, estimates the 
average number of deposits at fifteen per square inch, each deposit av- 
eraging thirty eggs. ‘This gives the frightful aggregate of 2,826,688,000: 
eggs per acre. This is doubtless a greatly exaggerated estimate, but 
after every deduction enough remains for serious alarm. It is not to be 
wondered at that some of our correspondents in this region call earn- 
estly for the legal protection of insectivorous birds. 
The C. femur rubrum did some damage in Westmoreland and Wash- 
ington, Pennsylvania, to corn and grass crops. In Franklin, Virginia,. 
and in Logan, Kentucky, they imitated one of the vices of civilization 
by chewing tobacco; in Callaway they nearly destroyed the turnip-erop. 
In Athens, Ohio, they devoured grapes. In Campbell, Tennessee, they 
were unusually abundant and destructive to corn. 
In the Southern States an insect called the grasshopper, but which 
cannot be identified by any specific name from the description, is re- 
ported in several counties. Our correspondent in Carroll, Georgia, 
says: 
Grasshoppers of a very distinctive kind have made their appearance here; some 
green, some yellow, some striped. They are of a kind never seen here before, an@® 
