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rows of black spots, is very abundant, and there are also larvae of lepidop- 

 tera, including one of a Catocala. The raspberry bushes, which a few 

 days ago were alive with bees and wasps, are now almost deserted, but 

 the wilted tips of many of the young shoots show that some enemy has 

 been at work. It is found that a foot or so below the top they have been 

 neatly girdled by two rings about half an inch apart, and that between 

 these rings has been inserted into the pith a long cylindrical egg, that of 

 Oberea bitnaculata. From a small balsam poplar is obtained Saperda 

 moesta, and an examination discloses the larvse of different sizes in gall- 

 like swellings, about an inch or two apart, along the shoots which are not 

 half an inch in diameter. Near the root, where the stem is somewhat 

 stouter, is found a much larger borer, which is apparently that of some 

 moth. The hickory grove is now reached, and the first tree yields a fine 

 Saperda disco idea, a very rare beetle here. From other trees the following 

 beetles are abtained : Dorcaschevia 7iigr2iin, Liopus alpha, Lepturges 

 querci, Leptostylus macula, Hyperplatys aspersiis, Anthaxia viridicornis, 

 Agrilus egenus, A. otiosus, A. bilineatus and Balaninus rectus. Several 

 tree-hoppers occur in various stages, including Telamona tmicolor and T. 

 fasciata. There are also some large flat half-grown bugs (yellow, with 

 blackish markings,) one of which has killed a luna caterpillar about an 

 inch long, and is sucking out its juices. The caterpillars of this moth are 

 quite common, but generally smaller than the one mentioned, and a few 

 larvse of other moths are seen. Three specimens of the pretty little 

 butterfly, Thecla calanus, are observed flitting about the trees, or settled 

 upon the foliage. Space will not permit to mention the various galls, 

 etc., which disfigure the leaves more or less. Scattered through the grove 

 are a few oaks, some of which have the foliage noticeably disfigured by 

 large globular woody galls placed upon the mid-rib of the leaf, which is 

 much distorted and curled up. From these galls are just emerging small 

 hymenopterous flies, with ample wings, of which I do not know the name. 

 Some of the leaves are being devoured by brownish caterpillars, half an 

 inch long, with a black head and a pair of black spines projected forward 

 from one of the thoracic segments. They feed side by side in rows of 

 five or six and eat the leaf from the tip downward. Upon these trees are 

 found also the beetle B. rectus, which was upon the hickory, and which 

 is remarkable for its extremely long and slender snout. Flying about 

 through the grove are lovely butterflies, Li?/ienitis arthejuis, fresh evi- 

 dently from chrysalis and almost persuading one to be a lepidopterist. 



