[128] EEPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 

 MISCELLANEOUS DATA FROM CORRESPONDENTS. 



Falls City, Richardson County. — I have lived here on the same 80 acres of land 

 since the fall of 1865, and have kept a journal all the time, so the data I give are not 

 from memory, but from records. We have seen the locusts come in here five times, and 

 at present the fifth .swarm is being hatched. The first time we ever saw them they 

 came in large numbers from the west, on September?, 1886, and consequently the first 

 hatch here was in the spring of 1867 ; the season was wet and the eggs hatched late, 

 as they are doing now, and 1 think there were quite as many here then as now. Nearly 

 all the wheat, oats, potatoes, and garden- vegetables were ruined, except pease, which 

 were not injured ; the corn, which was thinned out in places by them before they left, 

 made a good crop. In 1867 the first swarm that hatched here began leaving on June 

 28, and kept leaving, flying north and northwest, every day when the weather was 

 suitable, so that on the 4th of July but few were left here. They came back again 

 from the north in large numbers, but not so many as the year before. 



In the spring of 1868 they hatched out early, so that they began leaving June 20, 

 but they were not numerous enough to do us any serious damage. In the fall of 1868 

 a swarm came back, but smaller than either of the others, and our crops suffered but 

 little from the young in the spring of 1869. From the time that swarm left we were 

 not visited again till August 9, 1874, when the swarm came in from the southwest that 

 we shall always remember. [Those hatched from] the eggs laid by them caused a 

 total destruction of crops the next spring, and as a consequence nearly one-half of the 

 farms in this county are mortgaged^ to-day. a 



In 1875 a great many hatched on a south slope on the 19m of April. The weather 

 was dry, and almost every egg seemed to hatch. By the latter part of May almost every 

 farm in the two counties, Nemaha and Richardson, was as bare as in mid- winter. 

 After killing 200 apple trees for me, they began to leave on the 11th of June. Then 

 we planted our corn again, but when it came up it was destroyed by a flying swarm 

 that came down in a shower of rain. 



Last fall the 'hoppers did not get here till September 14 ; they had been near, both 

 north and west, for several weeks, but a steady south wind kept them back ; so there 

 were not as many eggs laid as in 1874. * * * The eggs were most numerously 

 hatching this year (1877) May 8. — [George Hutchings. 



Sunlight, Cass County. — (Answer to question 1, circular 1.)— Arrived at 2 p. m. 

 26th July, 1874. Wind from northwest, light, breezy ; clear ; direction of movement 

 to southeast, in clouds, low, flying and alighting all evening. 



In 1875 first saw ^ying ones 11 a. m. 3d of Juue — most on the 16th — from the south, 

 moving to the north, they were not numerous on either day, and quite high. 



In 1876, arrived 24th August, 10 a. m., with a light breeze from northwest, moving 

 southeast; but few quite high; following day alighted thick; weatlier clear. 



In 1874, swarm departed September 4, to southeast ; all got away that day. 



In 1875, flew northwest and north from 3d to last of Juue, very thick on 16th. — [T. 

 N. Babbitt. 



Plattsmouth, Cass County. — The locust eggs have been hatching with us ever 

 since early in April, and are still doing so in shaded cooler places, as also where turned 

 under by the plow and less exposed to the heat of the sun. A few warm days in suc- 

 cession have repeatedly covered the ground with the newly-hatched insects. But one 

 peculiarity has been observed and generally commented upon by all observers, viz : 

 but a very small per cent, of the insects increase in size. They are still small, as though 

 but just hatched; and further, each successive hatching did not seem to increase the 

 sum total, and very few are occasionally seen of from one-half to three-quarters grown ; 

 while it is time (with former experience) that the early-hatching should have wings 

 and be arriving at full growth, as the small swarm from the south yesterday also indi- 

 cates.— [A. L. Child, M. D., June 7, 1877. 



Grand Island, Hall County. — According to my memorandum-book of previous 

 years, the grasshoppers have visited this section of Nebraska, as follows, viz : while 

 we settled in this county (Hall) in July, 1857, we did not notice any grasshoppers until 

 in August, 1862. The first swarm appeared then and came with northwest wind ; 

 weather clear. 



On the 1st day of August, 1864, the 'hoppers made their appearance again. 



On July 15, 1865, all buckwheat in the county was destroyed by them, but no other 

 crops. 



On July 8, 1866, grasshoppers came in large swarms without doing a great deal of 

 harm ; northwest wind brought them ; weather clear. 



In the season of 1868, grasshoppers appeared again, but did no damage. 



In 1869, grasshoppers came in the early days of August, and destroyed nearly all corn- 

 crops in Hall County. 



In 1873, on May 22, grasshoppers came in large swarms with southwest wind, dam- 

 age light. They left with southwest wind, but on, July 20th, 2lst, and 22d, and on 

 August 5th and 6th, in 1874, grasshoppers came in swarms, which at times darkened 



