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after eating. The dead bodies of tliose thus killed are eaten by other 
loeiists and 'Mn a few days' time the ground may beeome strewn with 
the dead bodies of the iuseets." These facts are gained from Nature, 
September 30, 1887. 
COLLECTING URASSHOPPERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
It may not be generally known among entomologists that the State 
laws of New Hampshire provide for the paying of a bounty for all 
grassho])pers collected and destroyed in the montlis of June and July. 
The amount of such bounty is $1 for each bushel of grasshoppers, the 
l^ayment to be made by the selectmen of the town in which the insects 
were destroyed. The amount wiiich the State has expended in the 
eleven years — 1885 to 1895 — has not been great, and only reaches a 
total of 1,1)81'^ bushels, for which $1,982.77 has been paid by the State. 
The number of bushels upon which bounties have been paid during 
these years have been as follows : 
Year. 
Bushels. 
Amount. 
1 
Year. 
Bushels. 
Amount. 
1885 
907,^0 
542i 
268| 
$907. 90 
542. 37 
268. 75 
21.00 
18.50 
75.25 
3.00 
1892 
189:5 
1894 . 
1895 
1886 
1887 
106 
40 
$106. 00 
40. 00 
1888 
1889 
Total 
1890 
1, 982. 77 
1, 982. 77 
1891 
NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
Datana angusii injuring pecans in Mississippi. — Under date of August 26, 1897, 
Mr. John Kelly, of Mississippi City, Miss., wrote to this office that the caterpillars 
of Datana angusii, specimens of which he sent us, were very injurious in rows of 
pecan trees upon his own and neighboring plantations. At this time he states that 
200 trees of from 15 to 20 years old in his own grove were very much injured, fully 
one-half of them being entirely defoliated, while the remainder were more or less 
affected, 'i'he insect, which he describes as a scourge, had not been noticed in that 
locality before. The insects were present only upon pecans, which were denuded in 
a very short time. Our correspondent was employing about the best remedy known 
for this species, namely, burning them from the branches, and he writes us that he 
had destroyed fully 2 bushels of these caterpillars. Every day a fresh colony was 
discovered until the time of writing. 
Abundance of Catocala lacrymosa at Brookhaven, Miss. — July 1, 1897, Messrs. 
J. J. Stamps and Ira L. Parsons, of Brookhaven, Miss., sent specimens of Cafocala 
lacrymosa Gn. to this office, with the statement that during the latter days of June 
only a few of these insects were to be seen, but that at the date of writing thou- 
sands appeared at noon during hot weather, invading the houses in hundreds, and 
that where the bark was knocked off the oak trees they congregated at dark in grt^at 
numbers to suck the sap which oozed out. They were noticed all about that portion 
of the (country, and were so numerous as to attract the attention of all observers. 
The pear-tree borer in Mississippi.— A correspondent at Kirkwood, Miss., Mr. 
E. H. Anderson, wrote us, under date of June 18, 1897, of an insect that injuriously 
affected the pear in his vicinity. The accompanying specimens proved to be the 
larvte of the pear-tree borer (Sesia j)yri Hair.). This species is fairly abundant in 
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