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to tlie Rocky Mountain locnst; fly with the same noise and shine of wings, in large 

 shoals, but are larger. — [Dr. G. Eugelmaun, Warm Springs, N. C, August 29, 1876. 



We have a locust here which has in some places occurred in considerable numbers, 

 and some people think it the same as the one which has produced so much damage in 

 the West. This I doubt, as it is evidently a native species.— [E. M. Peudletou, pro- 

 fessor of agriculture, University of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., September 14, 1876. 



The American Acridium visited us on the night of November 21 (Saturday). A rain 

 fell during the night. Cambridge City, Ind., was also visited by them on the same 

 night. — [llerschel I. Fisher, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., 1876. 



Acridium americaiium. — Two correspondents of the Department of Agriculture, writ- 

 ing from Vevay, Ind., about the middle of last November, reported the visitation 

 in that place of an immense cloud of grasshoppers that literally covered the streets of 

 the town. One of the gentlemen observed, about five p. m., dense cumulo-stratus 

 clouds in the southwest, gradually overspreading the sky ; at six o'clock the wind had 

 risen to moderate gusts, and within half an hour a rattling noise was heard against 

 the windows, like that of light hail. On opening the doors, grasshoppers entered in 

 immense numbers, covering the floor, furniture, clothing, &c. The shower continued 

 till eight o'clock, p. m., when the ground was thickly covered, and the boys began to 

 burn them, shovelling them into bonfires. — IField and Forest, February, 1877. 



The next two items are from the Cincinnati Gazette, of October 24, 

 1876, aud refer to the appearance of this species in Dayton and Hamil- 

 ton, Ohio. 



A shower of mammoth grasshoppers came down upon our town and vicinity on Sat- 

 urday night. We have never seen such large ones before, and we understand from old 

 citizens that they are entire strangers in this part of the country. We saw a boy have 

 a string tied to two of them (which were as long as a man's finger) trying to drive 

 them, and he succeeded pretty well. 



A flock of grasshoppers alighted in Hamilton, about 11 o'clock on Saturday night, 

 from th'e northwest. Those that were not drowned in the river or killed by the heavy 

 rain, were probably gobbled up before Sunday night by the chickens. 



This same swarm passed over Oxford, in the same State, in a south- 

 westerly direction, specimens of the insects composing it, which proved 

 to be the species in question, having been kindly sent to us by Eev. L. 

 L. Langstroth, the well-known apiarian. It is a little singular that pre- 

 vious to 1876 we have but one instance on record of this species becom- 

 ing so abundant as to seriously injure crops, and that in a locality in 

 Virginia two years previous, while in the season quoted it was re- 

 ported East and West, and even as far South as Georgia; for 

 toward the end of July the unfledged insects did an immense amount of 

 damage to the cotton and other crops of that State and of South Caro- 

 lina. The papers were full of graphic accounts of their destruction, and 

 not only did editors very generally take for granted that they had to do 

 with the Western spretus, but specimens which Mr. T. P. Janes, Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture for Georgia, sent us at once revealed their true 

 character. 



There is a serious difficulty in the way of a proper apprehension of 

 the facts in regard to these locust-flights east of the Mississippi, in the 

 failure, in the popular mind, to discriminate between species; the ordi- 

 nary appellation of the locust or the grasshopper being applied without 

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