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been abandoned by worms which had gone in search of younger 
stalks. 
On the 7th June, after several hours of careful search in corn- 
fields near Lexington, McKean county, where I selected by pref» 
erence the least thrifty fields, I found no living larvæ, and but a 
single mass of webbed dirt at the base of a stalk precisely similar 
to those formed by the web worm, the hill containing it having 
been evidently damaged some time before. 
A number of the larve were brought to the office and placed 
in earth in-a breeding cage on the 28th May. On the 14th June 
those in the breeding cage were transferred to fresh corn, Many 
of them were dead, but nine active specimens remained. On the 
30th the corn was renewed and another search was made. No 
larvz were found and but two living pupz. A single imperfect 
moth was released from the earth in which it had completed its 
transformations, but it was not able to expand its wings and could 
not be determined. One of the other pupe was unfortunately 
crushed by accident, and the other was badly infested by mites 
which clung closely to its crust about the head with inserted 
beaks. These were carefully picked away, and this sole remain- 
ing pupa was returned to thoroughly calcined earth to complete 
its transformation. On the 22d July it emerged as a small gray 
moth, evidently belonging to the family Pyralide. 
From Professor C. H. Fernald, to whom I referred the speci- 
men, I learned that it was a ‘species of Crambus, new to him and 
probably undescribed. It is described as Crambus zeéllus Fer- 
nald, and is kńown to inhabit Maine, Penna., W. Va., Illinois and 
Missouri. On the 3d July Mr. Mill, of Dwight, wrote me that 
the larve had almost entirely disappeared from the corn fields, 
and that the season had been so favorable to the crop that no 
perceptible damage had finally ape with the exception of the 
loss of a few hills here and ther 
e small size of the individuals observed earliest in the season 
perhaps makes it possible that they came from the egg last spring ; 
and the brood represented in our collections must have complete 
its development by the end of July. Whether a second brood 
ap is altogether uncertain. 
e injuries inflicted occur so ak as to permit replanting in 
most seasons in case they should prove to be of serious import ; 
~ and this species is consequently to p classed ia jH Pade”, 
so far as the effect of its injuries to corn are conc —S. 
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UNUSUAL -o OF GRASSHOPPERS IN CoLorapo—Since 
; the latter part of May Western newspapers have, from time to 
ne =, contained alarming reports of swarms of young locusts or 
sshoppers in the valley of the Arkansas and in other portions 
