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GEJISRAl FllEDERS 
CrPASSEOPPERS (Acridi^^ae) 
Connectic-ut B. H. Walden (March 24): llz/mphs of overwintering species 
of grasshoppers are mbderatel^ abtindant. 
Florida J. R. Watson (March 21): Schistocarca americana Drury re- 
ported moderatelv ahundant, nore common than usual for March. 
Minnesota A. G. Rug2:les (March 21): In the infested districts, as 
reported last year, eges are extremely abundant. In one of 
our stops in the worst areas we found as many as 180 egg pods 
per square foot. These eggs have heen "brought in from time to 
time during the \m inter and in ten daj'S are giving us all the way 
from a 95 to a 100 per cent hatch. 
ITorth Dakota J. A. Munro (March 25): Recently numerous specimens of 
rather harmless species of grasshoppers have been received 
from Sheridan, Hettinger, and McLean Counties. These nymphs 
were picked up on bare spots of the open prairie and were 
reported as numerous in the eastern part of Sheridan County. 
Conditions have remained favorable for the eg.rs of the 
injurious species overwintering in the soil. 
South DaT-cota H. C. Severin (March 21): Hone of the overwintering eggs 
has hatched. Manj^ letters are received reporting hatching, 
but upon investigation the njTnphs were invariably species that 
normally hibernate as nymphs. The eggs of Melanoplus bivittatu; 
Say and M. dif f erentiali s Thos. that were so abundant in 1931 
have passed the winter successfully and we expect a large hatch 
this spring. Undoubtedly the extent of the area where serious 
trouble may be expected in 1932 is much lar^rer tlian it was in 
1931. 
Missouri L. Kaseman (March 22): Egg pa.c>ets are abtindant and passing 
the winter in good shape. 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (March 1 to 20): rearing the course of the winter 
farmers freouently reported the presence of n;;/mphs in the fields, 
especially in sod lands. Many thought th^t these represented 
early- hatched individimls of the two-striped or differential 
grasshopper, which species were so abundant and destructive in 
parts of Nebraska in 1931.- We have investigated a number of 
such reports including localities in Thajrer, Hancc, and Brown 
Counties, and find that in all cases they refer to one or more 
of four common species of bandcd^wingod grasshopcoers (Qediponinae) . 
The commonest species represented in these collections as a 
whole in the green- striped grasshopper, Chortopliaga virdif ascia.ta 
De G-. In central and northern IFebraslca the njonphs of two larger 
species, the coral-winged grasshopper, Hippi scus apiculatus 
Harr., and the northwestern red-winged grasshopper, Arphia 
