which prevail at Mays-Lick, in Kentucky, 89 



fields of corn were destroyed. Almost every different 

 kind of tree defoliated much earlier than usual ; and the 

 leaves of some were dried up without assuming those 

 beautiful colours that precede their fall*. 



2. In proportion to the number of showers which fell, 

 we had very little lightning and thunder. 



3. There was, I think, more east-wind than usual. 



4. Several different species of insects were uncom- 

 monly numerous. 



a. The army wormf (your Phalaea migratoria?). 



b. A green worm, about the same size, which committed 

 great ravages upon the leaves of the Hackberry-tree. 



c. Small insects not much unlike, but much larger than 

 Pediculi ; with a tuft of white filaments from 3 to 6 

 lines in length, rising out of the superior posterior 

 part of their bodies. These insects I saw exclusively 

 on the limbs of the Beach-tree. I saw them in no 

 other state than the one I have mentioned. It was 

 about the middle of September. 



* This was more especially the case with the Pau-pow (Annona 

 glabra?). The leaves became dry, and curled up without assuming 

 that light yellow colour which precedes their fall, generally. This 

 drying up uniformly commenced at the apex of the leaf ; but the 

 yellow colour generally commences at the base, and, in most cases, 

 on one side of the petiole. 



t This worm has not appeared during the present year. 

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