158 REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
be observed that this town is about fifty miles from the Colorado border, 
Taos being about thirty-five miles from the Colorado line. In July of 
this year, the crops in the counties of Rio Ariba, Taos, Santa Fe, and 
San Miguel, as well as Costilla and Culebra Counties, in Southern Colo- 
rado, "were almost entirely destroyed" by locusts, and the people of 
these afflicted counties had to call for help on the southern counties of 
New Mexico, whose inhabitants sent provisions. It is most probable 
that the injury was done by the young which hatched from eggs laid 
the previous autumn. 
At Santa Fe the locusts were seen passing over in swarms from the 
southwest in July, filling the air, and flying towards Taos, but as a 
rule they came lrom Taos, which lies to the northeast of Santa Fe\ 
They were abundant and destructive at Las Vegas, San Miguel County, 
this year. 
The Pueblo Indians, an industrious and thrifty people, nearly as ad- 
vanced in civilization and rather more respectable than the average 
Mexican inhabitants of New Mexico, suffered severely this year with 
their neighbors. Governor Amy informed us that the following Pueblo 
villages suffered this year: Santa Ildefouse, situated sixteen miles north- 
west of Santa Fe; also the pueblos of Tezuque, Santa Clara, I'ojauque, 
Nambe, and especially of Taos. These Indians lay up supplies of grain 
two or three years in advance to provide against drought and locusts. 
The Mexican name for grasshopper or locust is Ohopolin (a corruption 
of Chapulin ?) ; the Pueblo Indian name is Koweox Kohe, or the word 
is pronounced with a guttural accent like Khone. 
We were told by Mr. John Bouquet, of Pqjauque, that locusts hatched 
there in the spring of 1877 and eat up half of the crop. It is evident 
that the light swarms from Southern Colorado which visited the region 
about San Juan and southward in October, and attracted little atten- 
tion, laid eggs over a pretty extensive region in Northern New Mexico, 
and that the progeny of these flights did the damage recorded in 1877, 
and that as soon as the young became fledged they flew northward back 
to the region from which their parents came. This agrees with the gen- 
eral facts observed in the region of the Western Mississippi States from 
Missouri to Texas, when the winds early in summer blow from the south- 
ward, carrying the newly-fledged locusts back to the permanent breeding- 
grounds, from which they fly south and west in the autumn with the 
northwesterly winds then prevailing. 
1878. — A few locusts were at San Juan in this year. They were also 
seen in the mountains, and seemed to disappear west of the Rio Grande 
River. We were told that in October of this year a few locusts flew 
from the northeast to Pafia Blauca, hatching out in 1879.. (This state- 
ment needs confirmation ; it may have been confounded with the Octo. 
ber flight from the northward of 1876.) Locusts, however, hatched out 
at Taos in 1878, and when fledged flew towards the northwest into 
Colorado. 
