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or a path on firm bare ground exposed to the sun. 8. Warm, sunny exposures not 

 beaten too hard.— [Child. 



Steele City, Jefferson County.— A. March 20, in large quantities. 7. A bare sandy soil, 

 or on hillsides. 8. Sandy soil or bottom land. — [Gantt. 



Sunlight, Cass County— i. May 15, 1877. 5. May 10, 1875. 6. But few fa.led. 7. 

 Soil with a clay tendency, and well drained. 8. Same as 7.— [Babbitt. 



Falls City, Richardson County. — 4. May 21 to 28, 1877, in great numbers. 5. About 

 the middle of April, 1875.— [Unknown. 



Farmers' Valley, Hamilton County.— 4. April 20, 1877. 5. April 20, 1875. 7. Breaking 

 sandy soil. 8. Where deposited.— [Vosburgh. 



Genoa, Platte County. — 4. April 15. 6. About two-third of the eggs failed to hatch, 

 owing to continued cold wet weather. 7. South and southeastern exposures, and sandy 

 soils along the banks of rivers, and particularly in new breaking. 8. Similar to last. — 

 [Truman. 



Pleasant Hill, Saline County.— 4. May 19, 1877, in vast quantities. 5. About the same 

 time in 1875 not numerous. 6. About one-half ; cause,blowing-off of covering by wind 

 and exposure of eggs. 7. On naked, hard, dry ground, well-fed pastures, old roads, &c. 

 8. Driest and hardest ground. — [Abbott. 



Falls City, Richardson County. — 4. Hatching most numerouslv May 8, 1877. 5. April 

 19 to May 8 in 1867, 1868, 1875. 6. One-half per cent, failed in 1877.— [Hutchings. 



Ponca, Dixon County. — 4. May 1 to 15, 1877, greatest numbers. 5. April 1 iu previous 

 years. 6. One-sixteenth failed ; cause, wet weather. 7 and 8. Newly-broken ground, 

 hard-beaten roads.— [Rockwell. 



Arayo, Richardson County. — 4. May 28. 5. May 1. 6. Small per cent, in this locality ; 

 cause, wet weather and exx3osure to frosts. 7. Hard soil and spots of bare ground road- 

 ways and fall jDlowing. 8. Same as 7. — [Gerdes. 



TEXAS. 



Salado,Bell County. — 4. Eggs hatched most numerously during March. In places 

 where on one day none could be seen, on tl e next day the ground would be covered. 

 They deposited eggs in almost all kinds of soil, and, not being choice of location, they 

 filled the hilly and rocky country with their progeny, as they did the valleys and level 

 prairies, but the hatching was more numerous in open places than elsewhere. — [J. H. 

 Myers. 



Calvert, Bell County.—^. None. 4. From the middle of February to the middle of 

 March. 5. January, 1869. 6. There was no general cause to interfere with the hatch- 

 ing, and but few failed. They hatched most rapidly alter a rain, and they are still 

 hatching at this date, Ai^ril 24. 7. Sandy soil covered with weeds and bushes or stub- 

 ble. 8. Same as above. — [W. L. Coleman. 



Austin, Bell County.— Eggs hatched February 10 to March 15. Eggs deposited in 

 dry, sandy soil in bottom-land ; in dry, sandy timber-land, and gravelly, clay hill, south 

 side. — [John H. Lecriat. 



UTAH. 



Smithfield, Cache County. — 4. Eggs hatched most numerously from the 15th of April 

 to the 15th of May, 1877. 5. Eggs were hatched in previous years generally about the 

 same time as the present year. 6. From all appearances every egg that was deposited 

 hatched. 7. Eggs mostly deposited in a sandy, gravelly soil. 8. The young were most 

 numerously hatched on sandy, gravelly soil, uncultivated.— [James S. Cantwell. 



