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Arkansas. D. Isely (July 23) : Causing local damage, particularly in north- 
eastern counties. Differential grasshopper is the species chiefly in- 
volved. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (July 25); Nymphs, thought to he M. differentialis , were 
taken, and M, femur-rubrum was causing injury in Leflore County the latter 
part of June, Grasshoppers reported as more numerous and generally dis- 
tributed in northwestern Mississippi than for several years. 
MORMON CRICKET ( Anabrus simplex Hald.) 
North Dakota, J. A. Munro (July 22) • Observed crossing highway in the vicinity 
of Dakota. Reported more numerous farther south in the county",. 
South Dakota. (July 7-13) ; Reported in Stanley, Lyman, Mellette, Todd, and 
Jones Counties, (July 14-20): All cricket bands in Jones County greatly 
reduced and remaining crickets aro now scattered throughout the eastern 
two-thirds of the county. 
Nebraska.. (July 7-13) : father numerous in a few areas of Banner and Scotts 
Bluff Counties, 
Colorado (July 7~13)» Less than 2 per square yard were reported in northern 
Lincoln and western Kit Carson Counties*. Marginal infestation of 75 per 
square yard reported on a farm north and west of Flagler, in Kit Carson 
County. Less than 1 cricket per square yard present in the field. 
Montana. (July 14-20): Large numbers still present in the Volf Mountains of 
Big Horn County, No longer practical to continue control operations, as the 
crickets are so far removed from crop areas, 
Wyoming, (July 7-13 ) ; Crickets in all areas observed are now in adult stage; 
oviposition nearly completed in some areas of Hot Springs County; heavy 
deposits of unhatched eggs present over a large area in the Big Horn 
Mountains, Sheridan County. No embryonic development appears to ho.ve 
taken place and the number of eggs present apparently is as great now as 
at the time the egg survey was made in the fall of 1939 * A few seventh- 
instar nymphs and adults noted in this area, 
Nevada. (July 14-20): Oviposition is from 50- to 75 - percent complete throughou 4 
many areas at the lower altitudes. 
Idaho. (July 14-20): Largo numbers in Clark County now Mgrating from higher 
altitudes toward crop areas in the vicinity of Kilgore and Medicine Lodge. 
Many crickets at higher altitudes are in the fourth instar, A heavy 
infestation, which covered approximately 12,000 acros in the lower alti- 
tudes of this county, has been practically cleaned of crickets.' Large 
infestation in the Juniper-Butte vicinity of Fremont County has been 
materially reduced, Oviposition is about 50-porcent completed in some 
areas, while in others it appears to have just begun. 
Utah. (July 14-20): Most crickets throughout the State have completed ovi- 
position. 
