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_great fears are felt on their account. Corn in some fields is already stripped of its 
piades, and cotton-fields of the leaves; they appear to be moving in a northwest di- 
rection. 
This may be Oaloptenus differentialis, a specimen of which has been 
received from Georgia. Grasshoppers of this or some other species 
unidentified destroyed various crops in Bartow, Fayette, Forsyth, and 
Floyd, Georgia, and in’ Etowah, Alabama. 
COLORADO BEETLES, (Doryphera decemlineata.)—This pest has been far 
less injurious to the potato-crop than last year. In the West their visits 
were fortunately like angels’ visits—few and far between. Inthe East they 
were quite generally diffused, but, except in New York, comparatively 
harmless. They are reported in Chautauqua, Delaware, Onandaga, 
Orange, Broome, Schuyler, Sullivan, and Suffolk, New York; Cumberland, 
New Jersey; Chester and Lehigh, Pennsylvania; Prince George’s, Mary- 
land; King and Queen and Richmond, Virginia; Perry, Ohio; Hayne, 
Michigan; Elkhart, Indiana; Johnson, Illinois; Brown, Wisconsin ; 
Steele, Minnesota; Howard, lowa; Antelope, Nebraska. 
ARMY WORM, (Leucania unifructa {?| )—This insect is reported in 
Linn, Oregon, as eating potato-vines and then destroying the tubers. 
An insect under this name, but not identified, injured corn in East Fe- 
liciana, Louisiana. 
MISCELLANEOUS.—Grub-worms (Lachnosterna, sp.) injured pastures 
in Washington, Pennsylvania. In Spartanburgh, South Carolina, the 
cabbage-crop was destroyed by a green worm, (Pieris rape [?]) In 
Franklin, Virginia, tobacco was punctured in the stalk by a worm that 
devoured the pith, while in Logan, Kentucky, the flea- bugs (Haltica |?) 
destroyed the plants. Wire-worms (Hlater, sp.) injured corn in Law- 
rence, Indiana. A prolific insect called cut-worm, very different from 
the ordinary cut-worm, destroyed root-crops, vegetables, and fruit in 
Benton, Oregon. Several counties report new insects injuring corn. 
‘The leaf-hopper (Hrythroneura [?] ) injured grapes in Westmoreland, 
Pennsylvania, and in Grant, West Virginia, there is a panic about the 
dreaded Phylloxera. 
