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The early stages and food habits of this beetle do not coincide with 

 the idea that the larva? of this geuus are parasitic on scale insects. 



Adult specimens were placed in different glass jars and supplied with 

 uninfested corn or cowpeas. Somewhat later eggs were found in the 

 debris and excrement at the bottom of the jar by use of iodin. They 

 were found on the base of kernels of shelled corn. Although oviposi- 

 tion was not observed, it appears that in the case of corn in the ear 

 the eggs are placed down in the crevices between the kernels. The 

 larva? enter the kernels by eating a very small hole through the softer 

 portion at the base and thence eat upward toward the top. But one 

 larva occupies a single kernel. 



The life cycle is of about six weeks' duration, although some cases 

 were observed in which it was seven. 



The blueberry spanworm (Diastictis inceptaria) and the bum- 

 ble flower beetle (Euphoria inda), M. V. Slingerland {Canadian 

 Ent., 29 (1897), No. 3, pp. 19-53, p]. 1). — A few notes on the ravages of 

 the blueberry spanworm (Diastictis inceptaria) and the larval history 

 of the bumble ilower beetle (Euphoria inda) are given. Some larva' of 

 the latter insect were received June 19 and July 18, 1896, and placed 

 in cages in rotting sod and manure. The larva 1 quickly buried them- 

 selves, and on July 28 were found to have changed to pupa' in earthen 

 cocoons of a somewhat peculiar and definite shape, evidently made by 

 their rolling and twisting about and then cementing together the par- 

 ticles of eartli around them. 



On August 13 the first adult beetles appeared. They continued to 

 appear until September 10, but most of them emerged in August. 

 Since the larva' of this insect are found in rotting manure and have 

 never been observed to feed upon roots, the author thinks it injurious 

 only in the adult state. 



The best remedy against beetles appears to be hand picking. 



Report of the entomologists, V. H. Lowe and F. A. Sirrine 

 (New York State Sta. Rpt. 1895, pp. 549-033, ph. 11, figs. 16).— The 

 work done during the season is reported in different parts of the report 

 under various headings. 



The oak scale at Geneva, New York (pp. 550, 551). — This insect ( Aster- 

 odiaspis quercicola) is reported as having been very abundant on oak 

 trees at Geneva during 1895, the author's attention being first called 

 to it on a row of white oak trees on one of the streets of the village. 

 Some of the trees were nearly leafless and apparently dying. They 

 were badly infested from top to bottom. In other cases the lower limbs 

 had not produced leaves and some of the smaller branches were dead. 



The white marked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma) in western New 

 York (pp. 552, 553). — Larva? of this insect were very numerous in the 

 western part of the State, causing considerable injury, especially in 

 Yates and Ontario counties. One fruit grower reported that 25 per 

 cent of his apple crop had been ruined. The injury was done not only 

 by the caterpillars feeding upon the foliage of the trees, but also upon 



