154 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Among the grasshoppers are many injurious insects which in some countries 

 take the form of devastating plagues. In New Jersey the insects are held in 

 check by their natural enemies and only in unusually dry seasons do they 

 become at all troublesome on cultivated crops. In these cases the arsenates 

 may be used, and sometimes the bran and paris green bait is the most effective 

 method. Where turkeys are allowed to run they keep down tbe insects 

 effectively. 



TRYXALIS Fabr. 



T. brevicornis Linn. Common at Anglesea, IX, 4, in swampy meadows 

 (Sm), Jamesburg, VII, 4 ( Jn), Almonesson, IX, 18 (W). 



MERMIRIA Stal. 



M. bivittata Serv. Common at Anglesea, IX (Sm), Cape May, IX, 24, 

 (Sk), Ocean City, IX (W). 



SYRBULA Stal. 

 S. admirabilis Uhl. Cape May (Sk). 



ERITETTIX Bruner. 



E. car/hiatus Scudd. Not yet actually found in New Jersey ; but almost 

 certain to occur there ( Bruner). 



AMBLYTROPIDIA Stal. 



A. occidentalis Sauss. Has been taken from Florida to Canada, and there 

 is no reason why it should not occur in New Jersey (Bruner). 



ORPHULELLA Giglio-Tos. 



O. maculipennis Scudd., var propinquans Scudd. Anglesea, common, 



VIII, IX, Jamesburg, VII. IX, Ocean and Burlington Counties, VIII, 



IX (Sm), Westville (Ss), Ocean Grove (Cr), Staten Island, July till frost 



(Ds), Fort Lee (Bt). 



This is one of the species that is always common on cranberry bogs and may 



not be guiltless of occasionally eating into berries. 



O. sequalis Scudd. var bilineatus Scudd. Jamesburg, on Cranberry 

 bogs, Sandy Hook, Orange Mountains, VII and VIII (Sm), Fort Lee 

 (Bt). 



O. olivacea Morse. Sandy Hook, VIII, IX (Bt, Sm), Anglesea, Cape May, 

 VIII, IX (Ss, Sm) : none of my specimens have been taken on cranberry 

 bogs and this seems more strictly a sea-coast species. 



O. speciosa Scudd. Bound Brook, VIII. 



O. pelidna Burm. Described from Pennsylvania and thought by some to be 

 the same as maculipennis ; but Mr. Bruner does not agree with this and 

 thinks the true pelidna yet remains to be found. 



