[212] REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION 



Fort Dodge, Weljster Couniy. — 4. April 14 to May 21, 1877. 7. Sandy loam and south 

 side of knolls. 8. Sunny situations. — [Mrs. Swain. 



Alia, Buena Vista County. — 4. 1st to lOtli of May, 1877. 6. 50 per cent. ; cause, red 

 parasite ; wire worm ; deep i^lowing ; snow-birds ; 7. Dry, black loam breaking, south 

 east slope; sandy knolls. 8. Same. — [Crow3ll. 



Estherville, Emmett County.— i. May 10 to 25, 1877. 5. May 1 to 25, 1874. 6. Red par- 

 asite destroyed a few. — [Jarvis. 



Shelby.— A. ylpril 15 to May 2.— [W. H. Brown. 



Dakota, Humboldt County. — 4. May 20 to June 15, 1877. 6. About two-tbirds failed. 

 7. Sandy soil ; exposed situations ; road-beds. 8. Sandy hill-sides ; breakings. — [Adams. 



Pringhar, O'Brien County.— A. Middle of April to June 1,1877. 6. One in 100 failed; 

 cause, red bug. 7. Breaking ; black loam. 8. South ex^Dosure ; sandy soil. — [Longshore. 



Lake City, Calhoun County. — 4. April 23 to 26, 1877. 5. May 1, previous years. 6. 

 Fifty per cent, failed ; wet, cold condition of ground. 7. Dry sandy, clear road-sides j 

 breakings. 8. High,dry, warm situations. — [Jack. 



Mount Hope, Sac County. — 4. May 20, 1877. 6. About one-third failed. 7. Breakings; 

 dry soil. 8. Dry soil. New ground. — [Holmes. 



Sioux City, Woodbury Comity. — 4. April to May 7, 1877. 6. Small proportion hatched; 

 cause, warm winter, then cold ; fall plowing ; red-bug. 7. New breakings, fallow 

 ground; large ; road-sides. 8. High, dry places. — [Skinner. 



Hazard, Cherokee County. — 4. The first week in May. 7. In sod-lanes broken last 

 season. — [Pierce. 



Chickasaw, Chickasaw County. — 7. It seems to not make much difference as regards 

 soil for depositing eggs. It is anywhere where they happen to be when the time for 

 depositing arrives. I think, however, if any particular kind of soil has an advantage 

 it is a sandy soil. — H. H. Hobbs. 



Little Sioux, Harrison Comity. — 3. First eggs deposited August 11, 1876. 4. April 18, 

 1877. {Remark : Many eggs were hatched during a warm spell in March, but mostly 

 perished by the wet that immediately followed.) 5. From May 1 to May 15. 6. DifiS- 

 cult to answer, but will hazard the assertion of one-third : causes, violent rains in the 

 fall of 1876 causing them to be uncovered, and cold and wet this sirring. 7. Tight, com- 

 pact earth, rather sandy, smooth bare j)lace8, as in the highways ; August- plowed 

 fields. A tremendous amount of eggs has been deposited in the timber grounds upon 

 the Missouri River bottoms. 8. Dry, light, sandy soil of river-bottom ground, bluff 

 grounds, and invariably on road-side. — [A. H. Gleason. 



Des Moines, Polk County. — 4. Eggs hatched most numerously about May 25 to June 1 ; 

 commenced hatching about May 10, that is, in great numbers. 7. They were depos- 

 ited most numerously en new or last season's breaking, along road-sides, railroad em- 

 bankments, &c. ; almost none in corn-fields or stubble ground, (This was the condition 

 of ground at the time of deposit of eggs.) 8. They hatched as deposited, no ground 

 observed to be deleterious to the eggs.— [C. L. Watrous. 



KANSAS. 



Belleville, Republic County. — 4. Eggs deposited in the fields where there was an ex- 

 posure to sun, were the first to hatch. These commenced hatching as early as the 4th 

 of April, 1877, but the general hatching was not until about the 14th or 15th follow- 

 ing, and they have not all hatched yet, for the young white ones are seen occasionally 

 just kicking off their shells; of those that hatched first I can see but few now. — [J. P. 

 Heaton. 



Argyle, Sumner County. — 3. Not any. 4. April 3 to 14. 5. Latter part of May, 1875. 

 6. In some places 80 per cent. ; in others 50 to 25 ; cause of such failure unknown as 

 yet. 7. Soil sandy ; in some places hard clay : in some places sheltered by timber on 

 the creek and river. 8. Same as the above. — [Thomas Nixon. 



Ottawa, Franklin County.— "i. About October 1, 1876. 4. Very few hatched at all in 

 this vicinity. 5. In 1875, from April 1 to April 10. 6. Nearly all ; do not know the 

 cause. 7. In soil moderately hard and free from weeds. 8. In creek bottoms, but I 

 think not many there. — [A. Willis. 



Coyville, Wilson County.— 6. On May 2, 1 could not find any damaged eggs or any 

 traces of them, or any young locusts, in the localities I found them before. For the 

 past ten days or two weeks we have had cloudy and wet weather, which may have 

 destroyed all traces of the damaged eggs. In another location I found some that have 

 the appearance of the egg shrunken and dried. — [O. J. Thwaites. 



Mount Pleasant, Atchison County. — 6. I found but very few eggs that failed to hatch ; 

 of these most, I think, were " spoiled " by exposure to the sun and air ; those remain- 

 ing in the "cells" failed, I think, from not being fecundated or impregnated. As 

 there are no eggs here the present year, I do not know the proportion of failure to 

 hatch ; but I doubt if it is more than 5 per cent., judging from previous years. 7. 

 Eggs most numerously deposited in stiff clay, early-jDlowed stubble (wheat or oats) 

 land and blue-grass swards ; level or southern, and eastern or western exposures seem 

 to suit them best. The chief condition, I think, is a stiff, compact condition of the 



