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a.s the species just spoken of. certainly can commit an equal amount of 

 injury wheu size and numbers of the insects are taken into considera- 

 tion. Tliey can not, it is true, get up and fly away to regions new, but 

 they are equally rapid breeders, with favoring conditions. They can 

 be destroyed equally as well, if not better, than can the Rocky Mountain 

 species, ou account of their local restriction, even in the regions where 

 found. 



Mr. Southwick had noticed ^lelanoplns femnr-rnhrum iiying to the 

 tops of grasses towards sunset in the fields near New York City. 



Mr. Osborn had noticed the same habit. He spoke of the great diffi- 

 culty of estimating the damage done by grasshoppers. Some discussion 

 followed upou this point by Messrs. Southwick an<l Atkinson. 



Mr. Cook stated that M. femur-rubrum had been very abundant in 

 Michigan for three or four years back, but that he had had no difficulty 

 in estimating the damage to oats. He thought that the outlook in 

 Michigan was not at all serious, and considered that perhaps Mr. 

 Bruner's prediction was too doleful. 



Mr. Bruuer stated that we can not take any chances. The black 

 picture is justifiable if it will make people work to destroy the insects 

 and the local species have it in their power to become serious pests. 



Mr. Webster stated that femnrruhritm is the species which is doing 

 the damage iu Ohio. He had noticed a fungus parasite working to a 

 considerable extent near Columbus. 



Mr. Smith thought that Mr. Bruner's point that it is unsafe to predict 

 comparative immunity ou account of a tendency of farmers to shirk 

 work was a very good one. 



Mr. Cook stated that there was another side to be considered, for if 

 the entomologists predicted danger and the farmers did no work and the 

 plague did not come, the entomologists would be forever discredited. 



Mr. Weed spoke of the Cotton Worm, and stated that where the 

 planters were always ready with their stock of Paris green they were 

 in condition to fight tiie worm whenever it appeared in numbers. 



Mr. Webster thought it was always best to tell the truth and to 

 frankly admit all inability to give valid predictions. 



Mr. Fletcher was of the opinion that in all probability predictions 

 can be made more confidently in the Western country worked over by 

 Mr. Bruner than in Canada aud the region spoken of by Professor Cook. 



Mr. Marlatt read the following paper by Mr. Townsend : 



CHILD SACCHARALIS IN NEW MEXICO. 



By C. H. Tyler Townsend, Las Cruces, N. Mex. 



On July 8, 1891, 1 found a considerable number of stalks of young corn 

 ou the college farm infested with a borer. The borer enters by a hole iu 

 the stalk a shortdistance above the ground, and bores down into theroot. 

 It makes its burrow exactly down through the center of the stalk, and 



