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about (iehriiiK as a center; South i'latte to Xorth Platte (100 miles of 
the North Platte Valley before the junction with the Platte has been 
exempt). Chase, Dundy, Hays, and Hitchcock counties in Niobrara 
\'alle\, Chadron, and troni Ainsworth to Neleigh. 
The sjK'cies concerned in the damage have been, in order of their 
abundance, the ditVercntial locust [M. different ial is Thos.), the lesser 
nn^ratoiV locust (M.tithntis Kiiey), tiie two striped locust {M. birittntus 
Say), and tlie red Ie;i<ied \iWJi^t{M. femur rnitrnm I)e(>.). Tlie remark- 
able j>oini in this connection is the scarcity of the lonir-winged hx'ust 
( IHssostt'ira l(Hif/ijK-n)iis Tiios.), which was very noticeal)le last year and 
was supjMKsed to show indications of becominjj^ very troublesome. It 
caused juactically no dmna^e excei>t at one isolated j»oint near ()«ral 
lala. An equally rennukable fact was the incicase at some i)oiiits of 
JlippiscKs ronillipes Hald., which, like J), lom/ipennis, nj) to within 
three years was extremely rare, and is so recorded in Professor Pruner's 
list of ()rth()})tera published hist sprin«j:. This lar^^e species was found 
at Sidney, North IMatte, and some other points in abundance. It has 
never before been known to cause injury, ^f. anffuxtipennis Dodfje. 
and M./u(1hs Scudd.. as well as other species of destructive tendencies 
have, as far as 1 have found, been at a standstill. In this State 1 found 
no funjrus or bacterial disease abundant enou«»h to atfect the situation 
except locally. Tachinid parasites were extremely numerous at Cul- 
bertson, Sidney, and Indianola. 
KANSAS. 
The liOcky Mountain locust, Mrlanoplus spretus, was practically 
absent from Kansas this season, althou^jh some few specimens have 
invaded the northern part of the State and deposited their etjors durin^r 
September. These will undoubtedly not be heard of next season. 
In the western third of the State the valleys of the Solomon, Arkansas, 
and Cinnamon rivers have been generally affected by the non-nn«iTatory 
species, and the damaji^e has been intensified in the northwestern and 
southwestern corners of the State alonj:" the tributaries of the Ke]>ub- 
lican and the main valley of the Arkansas. During the month of Sep- 
tember this latter region was attected so severely that application for 
helj) was rtiade to the Kansas State board of agriculture at Toi)eka, and 
the University of Kansas has issued a bulletin on the subject. The 
counties that have been most atl'ected are Rawlins. Decatur, and Norton 
in the northwestern ])art, and Hamilton. Keainey, Finney, >rorton,and 
(irant in the southwestern part. The remainder of the western part 
seems to have been infested with scarcely more than the nornnil nund)er 
of locusts. The reasons for this state of affairs are i)recisely the same 
as those for the conditions in Nebraska, and the pest might as easily 
be removed by proper means. 
The si)ecies conc<'riUMl are ])ractically the same as those in Nebraska, 
M(l(in(q}h(s diiycrvntinlis doing at least three fourths of the damage, 
