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infestation of 2. longipennis extending over a"bout 6 sections was 
located in El Paso County near the Lincoln County line. These grass- 
hoppers are about 15 percent fifth instar and occur in numbers ranging 
from 4 to 25 per square yar(i, 
Nevada, (June ^ Ninety percent of M, mexicanus and SO percent of 
hivittatus in the State are now in the adult stage, -A. few M, mexi - 
canus and many M, occidentalis were mating in-Lyon and Washoe Counties 
on June 7* G-eneral flights of mexicanus and M, bivittatus were 
observed in the Smith Valley area in Lyon County, 
Texas, (June The infestation in northern Texas Panhandle counties 
is still heavy, although the total population of M, mexicanus in the 
migratory area has been reduced considerably. (June lb-22): About 
S5 to 90 percent of the grasshoppers in, the migratory counties of 
Dallam, Sherman, Hartley,, and Moore have reached the adult stage, 
M, mexicanus is the dominant species. Plights of this species were 
■ observed daily during the week in Dallam County, D, longipennis now 
comprises only a very siiall percentage of the grasshoppers occurring 
in Dallam and Hartley Counties, 
Oklahoma. C, P. Stiles (Juiae 26 ): Population throughout the eastern two- 
thirds of the State is light; , believed to be below normal, A few local 
outbreaks have occurred in McCurtain County. In southwestern 
Oklahoma a fev; local outbreaks have occurred in Jefferson, Harmon, 
Kiowa, Greer, and Hoger Mills Counties, Infestation remains very 
heavy in Cimarron County, 'Aere hoppers have been reported as numeroa s 
as 125 to 175 per square yard, most of them being 14. mexicanus . 
Infestation decreases coming eastward through Texas and Beaver Counties, 
Harper County reports some infestation, mostly A, turnbullii . (June 2-S) 
In Texas and Cimarron Coxxnties from 40 to 50 percent of the M, mexicanus 
are in the fifth instar, virhile 6c percent of A. turnbullii and 
A. elliotti are in the fifth instar, <A heavy infestation of A, turn - 
bullii was reported in Beaver County, with an average of 30 hoppers 
per square yard along field margins. The heaviest infestations in 
southwestern Cklahoma are reported to occur in Beckham, Kiowa, and- 
Greer Counties. (June 9**15)5 mexicanus is reported to be the 
dominant species in the western half of Texas County. In the eastern 
part of the. county crop hoppers are most numerous. In both Texas and 
Cimarron Counties 70 percent of A, turnbullii is reported to be fifth 
instar, (June l6 to 22): Plights of M, mexicanus were observed daily 
in Cimarron County, Brachystola magna Gir. is rather numerous over the 
s®uthwe stern part of the State and is scattered throughout the cotton- 
fields, 
Kansas, (June 9**I5)i Most grasshoppers, mainly A. turnbullii , are now 
adults in most of' the infested counties of the State, , In Hush and 
Thomas Counties M. mexicanus constitute more than half of the hopper 
infestation. Many of these are adult. Migrations have been observed 
in Pinney County where one band was about ^ mile wide and averaged 
about 25 hoppers per square yard. Another in the same county v/as about 
