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sO as to be likely to destroy the crop of clover seed," on June 23, 1860. 

 (Prairie Farmer ^ July 5, I860,) And in Champaign Co., Central 

 Illinois, young grasshoppers are said to have swarmed "in countless 

 multitudes" in the middle of June, 1861. (Ibid., June 20, 1861.) 

 All these grasshoppers in North and Central Illinois were also, in all 

 likelihood, the common Ked-legged. species; and it is to that species 

 that I should likewise refer the following observations, which, as well 

 as many others that the reader has already perused, have been gleaned 

 from the very valuable "Records of the Season," that enrich the pages 

 of the Prairie Farmer. 



"Morgan Co., Illinois, Sept. 7, 1867. — Some grasshoppers are 

 eating on the leaves of the corn, but not enough to do any damage." — 

 Prairie Farmer, Sept. 14, 1867. 



"Starh Co., Illinois, Aug. 27, 1867. — Some grasshoppers are eat- 

 ing on the leaves of the corn, but not enough to do any harm." — ■ 

 "W. N." in Prairie Farmer, Sept. 7, 1867. 



"Marshall Co., Illinois, Sept. 27, 1867. — Corn was doing well 

 until the 27th of August, when THE GRASSHOPPERS made their 

 appearance, eating off all the corn-blades and all our vegetables that 

 grow above-ground." — "E. S. H." in Prairie Farmer, Oct. 12, 1867. 



"Washington Co., Illinois, Sept. 3, 1867.— THE FLYING 

 GRASSHOPPERS are here by the bushel; voracious eaters, they 

 make fruit-trees, groves, currant and gooseberry bushes, and potato 

 vines look bad indeed. Corn-fields look like fields of bean-poles with 

 ears on them." — "0. C." in Prairie Farmer, Sept. 7, 1867. 



Washington county, it will be observed, is in South Illinois, 

 Morgan county in Central Illinois, Marshall and Stark counties in 

 North Illinois; and all four of them are removed by the width of at 

 least two counties from the Mississippi River. Consequently, it is 

 unreasonable to suppose, knowing what we do of the habits of the 

 Hateful Grasshopper, that that insect could have flown from the very 

 centre of Iowa — the nearest point to Illinois where it is known to 

 have occurred in the autumn of 1867 — over the whole of the eastern 

 half of Iowa and at least two counties in Illinois, without leaving 

 any signs of its journey on the road, and have subsequently appeared 

 in one or more of the interior counties of Illinois in September, 1867. 

 Hence, so far as indirect evidence goes, it is utterly improbable that 

 the Grasshoppers referred to in the above extracts could have belonged 

 to the Rocky Mountain species. It is very true that there is no di- 

 rect evidence, that the Grasshoppers found in Illinois in Marshall 

 and Washington counties during September, 1867, by "E. S. H." 

 and "0. C," were not the veritable Hateful Grasshoppers of Kansas, 



