[276] REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



*C: J. S. Bethune. The western locusts. <^ Annual Report of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario, for 1875. 1876. p. 45-54, fig. 



Compilation, from various sources, of reports upon the occurrence and doings of Caloptenus 

 spretus in 1875 in Manitolja and in the United States west of the Mississippi river ; extract, 

 from Riley's eighth report, of suggestions of means of reducing the ravages of the locusts; 

 locusts as an article of food. 



George M. Dawson. Notes on the locust. Invasion of 1874 in Manitoba and the 

 north west territories. 16 p. 8°. 



[From the Canadian Naturalist.] 



List of invasions of Manitoba by Caloptenus spretus. Directions in which the locusts travel. 

 Coniferous forests seem to cut off their migrations. Least endangered crops. Special reports 

 from numerous observers at distant stations. 



*Geo. M. Dawson. Notes on the appearance and migrations of the locust in Mani- 

 toba and the north west territories — Summer of 1875. 20 p. 8°. 



[From the Canadian Naturalist.] 

 [Subject expressed by title.] 



Geo. M. Dawson. Notes on the appearance of the locust in Manitoba and the 

 northwest territories. Summer of 1876. May, 1878. p. 8°. 

 [From the Canadian Naturalist,] 



*J. B. Phillips. The Rocky Mountain locust. Caloptenus spretus. Statistics of 

 Minnesota for 1876. Being the Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Sta- 

 tistics, p. 88-112. 



On the wide distribution of destructive locusts. Accounts of the flight of (Edipoda migra- 

 toria far out on the Atlantic ocean and into Europe. Particulars of the European invasion 

 of 1747 and 1748, and accounts of other invasions of CE. migratoria. Statistics of all the inva- 

 sions of destructive locusts within the United States since 1818. Tables showing the dam- 

 age done by locusts in Minnesota in 1875. 



* J : C. "Wise, Warren Smith, and Allen Whitman. The grasshopper, or Rocky 

 Mountain locust, and its ravages in Minnesota.— A special report to the Hon. C. K. 

 Davis, Governor of Minnesota. — Five thousand copies ordered printed. — Saint Paul, 

 Pioneer Press Company, 1876. 50 p. 8°. 8 fig. 



List of writings and other sources of information ; record of invasions of Caloptenus spretus 

 since 1819, and particularly of invasions of Minnesota ; years, seasons, and places of invasion 

 and departure; ravages; characteristics, relationships, and descriptions (with figures) of 

 O. spretus, Cfemur-rubrum; C.-differentialis, C.bivittatus, C. atlanis ; growth, habits, native 

 breeding-grounds, oviposition, and food of C. spretus ; natural and artificial means of destruc- 

 tion of the locusts; climatic influences ; enemies; parasites. 



*J : S. Pillsbury, C : V. Riley, and Pennock Pusey. The Rocky Mountain locust, or 

 grasshopper, being the report of proceedings of a conference of the governors of sev- 

 eral western states and territories, together with several other gentlemen, held at 

 Omaha, Nebraska, on the 25th and 26th days of October, 1876, to consider the locust 

 problem ,* also a summary of the best means now known for counteracting the evil. 

 Saint Louis, 1876. [4] -}- 58 + p. 23+15. 8 fig. 



Proceedings ; practical considerations and suggestions for the repression of Caloptenus 

 spretus; description, oviposition, transformations, and habits of the locust; its enemies and 

 parasites ; means against it in its various stages. 



*C : V. Riley- Locusts as food for man. <^ Proceedings of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. Salem, 1876. v. 24, pt. 2, p. 208-214. 



Use of locusts as food in different ages and countries ; how they are cooked ; what kinds 

 are eaten. 



*C : V. Riley. The locust plague ; how to avert it. < Proceedings of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 1876. v. 24, pt. 2, p. 215-222, 

 Eavages of Caloptenus spretus in 1873-7.'5 ; means to be employed against them. 



*W. R. Gerard. Insects as articles of food. <^ Proceedings of the Poughkeepsie So- 

 ciety of Natural Science. 1876. v. 1, p. 17-31. 



Discussion of tastes ; methods of preparing locusts, crickets, larvae and images of beetles 

 and moths, ants, termites, flies and eggs of bugs and ants ; chemical analysis of Corixa flour. 



*E. C. Merrick. Grasshoppers in the nortliwest. <^ Field and Forest. 1876. v. 2, 

 p. 64-65. 



List of counties invaded by locusts in 1876 in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and 

 Nebraska ; number of eggs deposited in a given area ; usefulness of birds in destroying the 

 locusts. 



*C. R. Dodee. Editorial pencillings. < Field and Forest. 1876. v. 2, p. 69-70. 1877. 

 p. 125-126. 



Desirability of the appointment of a commission to study the locust-problem ; text of a 

 bill introduced into Congress for the purpose of such appointment. 



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