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clothed with black hairs. The true legs are black, with yellow bands at 

 the extremities of the joints. Venter yellowish, tinged with purple. 



On May 22nd, one of the larvae changed to a pupa on the soil in my 

 cage. The worms would not eat the currant leaves placed in the cage. 

 The pupa is of a very dark, shining brown colour, with the abdomen a little 

 lighter and sparsely punctate. 



As the other pupa and the larvaihad all died, the pupa just described 

 was watched with much interest daily. At last, on the twelfth day (June 

 4), a dainty, modest little Quaker-gray moth emerged. It is shown, twice 

 natural size, on the plate. About the only noticeable markings on the 

 wings are one or two blackish spots on the costa of each front wing. 

 The antennse are quite stongly pectinated. The moth was at once sent 

 to Mr. Hulst, who determined it as Diastidis inceptaria. Walk. In an 

 illustrated communication to the "Rural New-Yorker" for July 25, 

 1896, I proposed that the insect be popularly known as the " Blueberry 

 Span-worm," in recognition of its destructive work on that plant. 



The moth was first described in 1862 (Cat. Brit. Mus.,XXVI., 1667), 

 from a Canadian specimen in the D'Urban collection. Dr. Packard again 

 described it as argillacearia in 1874 ; this name was found to be synony- 

 mous with Walker's earlier name, inceptaria^ by Mr. Moffat, as recorded 

 by Mr. Hulst (Ent. News, VI., p. 11, 1895). Dr. Packard records the 

 moth from Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Canada (Mon. of 

 Geom., p. 258). He states that " it is very abundant in pine woods in 

 Maine on a dry soil, rising and fluttering with rather a feeble flight, and 

 soon settling again. In July, 1874, I captured thirty males before secur- 

 ing a female ; the latter are apparently less ready to fly." 



Heretofore nothing seems to have been known of the early stages of 

 this Geometrid. Whether there is more than one brood of the cater- 

 pillars is not known. Doubtless the practice of burning over the blue- 

 berry fields every few years greatly checks the pest. The larvse will prob- 

 ably quickly succumb to a Paris green spray, and a little united effort 

 among those interested would soon control this blueberry span-worm. 



The Bumble Flower-beetle {Euplioria inda, Linn.). 



This yellowish-brown beetle, with its wing-covers sprinkled all over 



with small, irregular black spots (shown at a on the plate, twice natural 



size), is our most common flower-beetle in the North. " It is one of the 



first insects to appear in the spring. It flies near the surface of the ground, 



