24 MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 
in numbers by the remedial measures taken and by birds that they 
were not excessively abundant; but had the cultures been effective 
some diseased individuals would surely have been found three weeks 
after the first distribution, when the insects were still plentiful. Fur- 
thermore, at College Station, on April 1, a dozen locusts were dipped 
in the culture received from Professor Bruner and introduced into a 
field cage where several dozen live hoppers were given favorable con- 
ditions. These were supplied with food and the cage kept in good 
condition until June 1, during which time much rain fell, but no dis- 
eased specimens were observed. 
Early in June cultures of the South African fungus were received 
direct, through the courtesy of Dr. Alexander Edington. Upon learn- 
ing of an outbreak of M. differential is in north Texas, and upon the 
request of planters there, several of these tubes were sent them and 
were prepared and disseminated by them as directed. They were, 
however, unable to notice any diseased locusts as a result. 
These accounts of failures to secure any benefit from grasshopper 
cultures can not be regarded as at all conclusive concerning their lack of 
efficacy, but they at least add to the weighty evidence already reported 
against the value of such cultures for the control of grasshoppers. 
THE CLUMSY LOCUST. 
(BracJu/stola magna Gir. Fig. 12.) 
Throughout the counties of west-central Texas, as far east as Bexar 
and Comal, this species replaces the common southern lubber grass- 
hopper (Dictyophorus retieulatus Thunb.), shown in figure 18. Unlike 
Fig. 12. — Brudu/stula magna, adult — natural size (author's illustration) . 
the latter species, however, the '"clumsy locust" occurs in large num- 
bers and often does serious damage. In 19()-t it was much less injuri- 
ous than usual, and no observations upon it in the field were possible. 
Our information concerning its habits is, therefore, derived mostly 
from correspondence with Mr. L. B. Smith, of Rescue, Lampasas 
County, a prominent bee keeper and careful observer, whose accounts 
have been largely confirmed by others in neighboring counties. May 
22, 1903, Mr. Smith wrote as follows: 
We are being bothered again by the wingless locusts. They are destroying the 
cotton crops by the wholesale, and, unlike most other insects, these come early and 
