Clje faabian Entomologist. 



VOL. XIII. LONDON, ONT., JANUARY, i8Si. No. i 



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ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



77/1? Indian Cetonia : Euryomia inda. 



This is a stout, hairy beetle (fig. i) which makes its appearance early 

 in spring, i^ually towards the end of April or beginning of May, flying 

 about in open fields and about the borders of woods, vvith a 

 loud buzzing sound, resembling that of a bumble bee. It 

 belongs to the flower beetles, most of whom live on pollen 

 and the honey of flowers, and are fond of sweets. 



This insect is of a brownish-gray color, dotted and spotted 

 with blackish and thickly covered with short greenish-yellow 

 Fig- I- hairs. It measures half an inch or more in length. During 

 the summer it disappears, but a second brood comes out in the fall, usually 

 during September, when they may be found feeding on the pollen of 

 flowers and also upon the sweet sap of plants and trees. Not content 

 with this, they attack our finest and most luscious fruits, eating their way 

 into the richest ripening pears and burrowing into the finest peaches so 

 deeply that only the tips of their bodies are visible, and in this way spoil- 



