INJURY nONE BY OTHER NON-MIGRATORY LOCUSTS. 459 



I want information as to whether the same locality or place is likely to he overrun 

 and eaten hy them another year, or for a series of years. They are very numerous; 

 have totally eaten up hundreds of acres of meadow and pasture, ard have done con- 

 siderable damage to corn and oats. They have eaten up eighty acres of meadow for 

 me, so closely that 1 shall not get one wagon-load of hay. They spread off the low 

 ground, after eating up the grass, to the higher portions of the meadows, and thence to 

 other fields. — [Correspondence of the Country Gew/?cwaw, Brentsville, Va., July 26, 1877. 



" The grasshopi)er plague, or a modification of it," says the Republican, " has visited 

 Eureka, Mo., and the general impression is that they constitute a detachment of skirm- 

 ishers from the Nebraska army that has lost itself west of the summit of the Rocky 

 Mountains." — [ Western Farm Journal, July 15, 1877. 



Mr. A. H. Gleason, of Little Sioux, Harrison County, Iowa, sent us 

 (May 21, 1877) the following, with specimens of Tragocephala viridifas- 

 data (Fig. 9) : 



I send you specimens of the white or gray 'hopper. These 'hoppers are always here. 

 They lay their eggs in August or September, and these hatch (at least some of them) 

 the same fall. I saw them last October and November, little fellows in spots of one 

 square yard to a twenty acre piece covering the ground as thick as ever I have seen 

 the Western plague. I have found them early in the winter under the leaves and dry 

 straw and husks that have drifted up under the fences and behind logs in the woods in. 

 a dormant state, and upon warming them they would become as brisk as ever. I 

 found them this spring, in April, very big. Many of them are fully developed and are 

 flying around, yet they have never done us any particular damage. 



Mr. George Way, writing from Socorro, K Mex., July 5, 1877, sent us 



specimens of (7. differen- 

 tialis (Figs. 32,* 110). 

 He says: "I send you 

 specimens of the only 

 herd of locusts in our 

 county. They were no- 



FiG. 110.— Differential Locust. ticcd about four WCCks 



ago, and since that time 

 have been living on dahlias and hollyhocks, with very little grass." 

 He also states in this communication that beyond his own yard little 

 injury was done. 



Mr. Arthur P. Gray noticed great numbers of the common Eed-legged 

 locust at Kittery, Me., about the middle of August, 1877. In York and 

 Elliot immense quantities of the 

 insect were observed along the 

 road-sides and upon the lower 

 rails of the fences, so thick that 

 in many places the rails were 

 hidden from view. 



Theo. M. Finley, writing from 

 Niles, Mich., sent us specimens 

 of Caloptenus bivittatus {Fig. Ill), 

 with the statement that they did considerable damage near Berrien 

 Springs, Mich., though confined to a territory of only a mile square. 

 Grass and oats suffered most, the last crop being entirely destroyed. 



Fig. 111.— Two-striped Locust. 



