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GRAPE. LEAVES. 



The Eumolpus Vitis which often sadly devours the vine leaves 

 in southern Europe, Kirby states to be common in New- York and 

 Canada; but I think this is a mistake. 



The RosE-BUG, No. 50, is one of the greatest pests to the vine, 

 in neighborhoods where it abounds. 



129. LiGHT-LOYixG Anomala, Anomola lucicola, Fab. (Coleoptera. Melo- 

 lonthidae.) 



The fore part of July beetles resembling in their appearance 

 the May-beetle, No. 76, but of a much smaller size, being only 

 about 0.35 long, become common on both wild and cultivated 

 grape vines, feeding upon the leaves. From their colors and 

 marks they would appear quite plainly to be of at least four very 

 distinct species, and Fabricius has named and described three of 

 them as such. But as they are always found associated together, 

 and similar insects in Europe vary similarly in their colors, it is 

 probable they are as authors have supposed, mere varieties of one 

 species. They may be distinguished as follows : 



1. The GLOOMY Anomala {Ji. mcerensj Fab.,) of a pale dull yel- 

 low color, the thorax sometimes reddish, and with the knob of 

 the antennae and tne middle of the breast black. 



2. The SPOTTED NECK {maculicollis^) like the preceding, but 

 with a black stripe or large spot on each side of the middle of the 

 thorax, and often the hind part of the head and the outer side of 

 the wing covers also black. 



3. The LiGHT-LoviNG {lucicola^ Fab.,) pale dull yellow with the 

 thorax black except on each side and on the middle of its hind 

 edge, the hind part of the head, the scutel and under side of the 

 body being also black, with the abdomen brown or sonittimes dull 

 yellowish. 



4. The BLACK {afrata^ Fab.,) black throughout, the abdomen 

 commonly tinged slightly with pale. See Harris's Treatise, p. 29. 



130. Spotted Pelidnota, Pelidnota panctata^ Linn. (Coleoptera. Sca- 

 rabidae.) [Plate ii, fig, G.] 



A large broad oval beetle of a pale brownish yellow color, 

 with a black dcjt on each side of the thorax and three others along 

 the outer side of each wing cover, as represented in the figure on 



