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750 General Notes. [ September, 
C. Kelley, of Jamestown, Dakota Ter., reports a flight as passing 
over that place without giving the direction of the flight. Large 
numbers of the common dragon-fly, Diplax rubicundula Say, 
were mingled with the locusts. 
winter wheat in consequence. Mr. Thomas H. B. Moulder, of 
Cane Pump, Camden Co., Mo., sent the insect in the flax-seed 
state, the latter part of June, with the statement that he had forty 
acres of wheat which all fell or broke down about two weeks be- 
fore ripening, from the insect’s injuries. The western agricultural 
papers have had abundant notices of the Hessian Fly this season, 
but as our eastern entomologists, as a rule, do not see those 
journals, it is more than probable that this year would be put 
down by them as one in which the species was not heard of or 
known. The present year is, however, not exceptional, and more 
or less injury has been done by this insect in the West every 
year since we have given any attention to entomology. 
THE GENUINE ARMy Worm IN THE West.—While the reports 
of the appearance of the army worm in New York, noticed in 
the July number of the Narura.ist, proved to be, as there stated, 
due to the injuries from Mephelodes violans and a supposed Py ralid 
larva,’ the true army worm has since appeared in force in Central 
an average and favorable one, being neither unusually wet nor 
dry. It becomes very evident that the eggs were laid the present 
year, either by the moths that had hibernated or by 4 ec 
generation of moths, the latter seeming, from all the facts gatheree, 
most probable. 
New Importep Enemy to Cirover.—Again we have ego 
port the sudden appearance in this country of an insect whic s 
though well known in Europe for almost a century, was — 
‘known to do any serious harm there to crops. 2 asia 
Phytonomus punctatus Fabr., a member of the Curculionid family, 
We have since bred the moth from this larva and it proves to be —_ 
vulgivagellus Clem (= chalybirostris Zell). Professor Lintner had previously bret’ 
ai of what he considered Crambus exsiccatus. Both are common 5 eats) - 
the genus 
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