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after eating. The dead bodies of those thus killed are eaten by other 
locusts and “in a few days’ time the ground may become strewn with — 
the dead bodies of the insects.” These facts are gained from Nature, 
September 30, 1857. 
COLLECTING GRASSHOPPERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, 
It may not be generally known among entomologists that the State 
laws of New Hampshire provide for the paying of a bounty for all 
grasshoppers collected and destroyed in the months of June and July. 
The amount of such bounty is $1 for each bushel of grasshoppers, the 
payment to be made by the selectmen of the town in which the insects 
were destroyed. The amount which the State has expended in the 
eleven years—1885 to 1895—has not been great, and only reaches a 
total of 1,9823 bushels, for which $1,982.77 has been paid by the State. 
The number of bushels upon which bounties have been paid during 
these years have been as follows: 
Year. | Bushels. Amount. | Year. | Bushels. Amount. 
| 
7: Tye sot gee ea 907 a NPE lane paplced VOR <I el Pe nas eee a 
LS ee © ee ae 5422 FARO WLS OS: 5 oe oe eect wate Be etn aes ae Pee eee eee 
> yl alee A RRS 268% po Aer | rh Sig oe oe ea 106 $106. 00 
[Be lato' eS 21 SOD WL Goa tone cota Sees e 40 40. 00 
Sea) RPE aS eee ee Saeed 184 18. 50 | 
EN ee em ee 2 een ao 754 (ae Il Gta eee eencetas 1, 982. 77 1, 982. 77 
Tl es 2 i ee 3 3. 00 ! 
NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
Datana angusii injuring pecans in Mississippi.— Under date of Angust 26, 1897, 
Mr. John Kelly, of Mississippi City, Miss., wrote to this office that the caterpillars 
of Datana angusii, specimens of which he sent us, were very injurious in rows of 
pecan trees upon his own and neighboring plantations. At this time he states that 
200 trees of from 15 to 20 years old in his own grove were very much injured, fully 
one-half of them being entirely defoliated, while the remainder were more or less 
affected. The insect, which he describes as a scourge, had not been noticed in that 
locality before. The insects were present only upon pecans, which were denuded in 
a very short time. Our correspondent was employing about the best remedy known 
for this species, namely, burning them from the branches, and he writes us that he 
had destroyed fully 2 bushels of these caterpillars. Every day a tresh colony was 
discovered until the time of writing. 
Abundance of Catocala lacrymosa at Brookhaven, Miss.—July 1, 1897, Messrs. 
J. J. Stamps and Ira L. Parsons, of Brookhaven, Miss., sent specimens of Catocala 
lacrymosa Gn. to this office, with the statement that during the latter days of June 
only a few of these insects were to be seen, but that at the date of writing thou- 
sands appeared at noon during hot weather, invading the houses in hundreds, and 
that where the bark was knocked off the oak trees they congregated at dark in great 
numbers to suck the sap which oozed out. They were noticed all about that portion 
of the country, and were so numerous as to attract the attention of all observers. 
The pear-tree borer in Mississippi.—A correspondent at Kirkwood, Miss., Mr. 
E. H. Anderson, wrote us, under date of June 18, 1897, of an insect that injuriously 
affected the pear in his vicinity. The accompanying specimens proved to be the 
larvx of the pear-tree borer (Sesia pyri Harr.). This species is fairly abundant in 
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