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Yakima, Franklin, Adams, and Whitman counties in Washington, have 
suffered to a great extent from devastations by locusts. The vicinity 
of Ritzville seemed to have suffered most of all. Mr. A. S. Newton, of 
that place, informs me that for two years the total acreage of wheat has 
been injured to the extent that only half a crop has been harvested. 
Melanoplus spretus was taken at all points in this State where stops 
were made, but in rather few numbers. However, in the northern part 
of Adams County, in Washington, it was the sole species concerned in 
the damage. 
M. femur-rubrum has done by far the greater share of the injury, 
though J. atlanis has also been very numerous. The injury that has 
been done by these species in these regions has been as great as has 
been done in any part of Colorado during the past season, though the 
conditions are entirely different in the two regions. Parasites, mites, 
and Tachinidae were very numerous and were fast decreasing the num- 
ber of locusts. In many cases this abundance, with an extremely wet 
fall, will have the effect of materially decreasing the number of locusts 
appearing next season. LHarly in September the rainy season began 
before much of the wheat was cut, and prevailing cold rains continued 
for several weeks. ‘This was just in time to interfere with the deposit- 
ing of eggs, and furthermore had a very demoralizing effect on the 
locusts, Large numbers were found huddled together, many dead, and 
the remainder weakened by the cold and attacks of fungus diseases. 
These fungus diseases, if it were not for the cold, would have spread 
to such an extent as to exterminate the pests. Conditions here are so 
entirely different from those in Colorado that it is safe to say that the 
pest is on a decline, although it will by no means have disappeared by 
next season. Professor Cordley is of this same opinion. 
In Oregon several localities in the Grande and Umatilla valleys 
have suffered in the past few years from crickets, but, as far as I could 
ascertain, not this season. There was one such case last year near 
Seneca and another near Pilot Rock. 
MONTANA, 
The only stop made in this State was at Helena, where, a few miles 
up the Last Chance Gulch, several specimens of Jelanoplus spretus were 
collected, the only species of Orthoptera in evidence. I was informed 
by Mr. A. I. Sanderson, of Helena, who has traveled in all parts of the 
State this season, by wagon from Miles City to Livingston, that he had 
not seen or heard of an undue prevalence of locusts in any part of the 
State. Mr. P. A. Rydberg, agent of the Division of Botany, who in 
July and August covered thoroughly the region between Bozeman, 
Livingston, and Yellowstone Park, reported that the number of locusts 
seemed less than in previous years when he had traversed the same 
territory. A well-informed ranchinan from the valley of the Madison, 
