APPENDIX V. 
DATA CONCERNING LOCUSTS IN TEXAS.* 
Galveston, Tex., An oust 15, 1877. 
To the 6hief Signal Officer of the Army : 
Sir : Agreeable to your letters of May 17 and June 9, 1 have the honor to submit 
the following data in regard to the habits and depredations of the Rocky Mountain 
Locust or Grasshopper in this State during the present year. 
The data have been collected principally from the files of the Galveston Daily News, 
which has proved to bo the only practicable meaus at my disposal for obtaining in- 
formation on this subject, all requests for information addressed to the interior por- 
tions of the State having, with a single exception, been ignored. 
The portion colored red on the accompanying map shows the section of country 
injured by the insects, which is nearly identical with the region in which they origi- 
nally hatched. No iuformation of their having appeared in the counties of Blanco, 
Comal, Burleson, or Karnes, located in the interior of this section, lias been obtained. 
A careful inspection of the herewith inclosed data enables the following answers to 
bo given in answer to Circular No. 1 of the Entomological Commission. The answers, 
for convenience, are numbered to correspond with the questions. 
1. The insects generally developed from eggs deposited in the ground last fall, and 
did not arrive in swarms from a distance. 
2. In Caldwell County they were traveling northward about March 10 ; Milam 
County, going north about March 10 ; Fayette County, going westward about March 
10; Hill County, diminishing about March 10 ; Bell County, diminishing about March 
15 ; De Witt County, disappearing from Deer Creek about March 15 ; Milam County, 
jumping northward about March 15 ; Victoria County, leaving as soon as hatched, 
about March 15; De Witt County, hopping northward about March 20; McLennan 
County, moving northward about March 20; Milam County, going northward about 
March 20 ; Gonzales County, traveling northward about March 30 ; Colorado County, 
traveling a little north of west about April 3 ; Comanche County, diminishing in num- 
bers about April 3; De Witt County, disappearing in spots about April 4; Comanche 
County, disappearing about April 10 ; Robertson County, hopping north about April 
10; McLennan County, hopping north about April 6 ; Hays County, decreasing in 
numbers about April 12; Caldwell County, leaving by the million about April 15 ; 
De Witt County, disappearing about April 19 ; Fayette Connty, disappearing about 
April 20 ; Grimes County, going south about April 20 ; Waller County, disappearing 
fast about April 20; Grayson County, jumping northward on April 25; Montague 
County, moving northward about April 20 ; Gonzales County, flying northward about 
April 15; Washington County, gradually disappearing about April 20 ; Ellis County, 
passing northward slowly on April 20 ; Washington County, moving northward on 
April 26; Colorado County, rapidly disappearing about April 16-23; Fayette County, 
going northward on April 15; Johnson County, going off about April 25; De Witt 
County, flying oft' about April 25 ; Robertson County, disappearing about April 25 ; 
Waller County, disappearing on April 30 ; Bastrop County, rapidly disappearing about 
April 28 ; Hays County, going north about April 26 ; McLennan County, going north, 
flying high, on May 2; Travis County, heavens clouded with them, going north, wind 
sonth, on May 2; Austin County, heavens clouded with them, going north, wind 
south, about April 30; Washington County, air full of them, going north, about April 
30; Bastrop County, moving northward about April 30 ; Bell County, nearly gone by 
April 30 ; Fayette County, heavens alive with them, going noith, about April 30 ; Lee 
Connty, emigrating on May 5; Denton County, disappearing rapidly about May 1 ; 
Fayette County, going northward throughout week ending May 2; Loon County, 
rapidly disappearing about May 1 ; Lampasas County, passing north about May 2 ; 
Colorado County, emigrating in large numbers about May 1 ; Caldwell County, myri- 
* The following notes were omitted from the First Report for want of space. They were furnished 
the Commission by the late Bvt. Brig. Gen. A. J. Myer, U. S. A., Chief Signal Offioer. 
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