262 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



one of which is seen in Fig. 241. This fellow is a 

 yellowish brown with indistinct dark stripes. All 

 the elm beetles are undesirable citizens and should 

 have been sent back to Europe when they arrived 

 at Ellis Island, if that is the place where they did 

 arrive. To tell the truth, they probably slipped in 

 at some unguarded port and did not come with 

 the regular line of immigrants. 



But if the newspaper reports can be relied upon, 

 and I doubt it in this case, the New England ehn 

 beetles are a mihtary lot, who in 1895 came march- 

 ing into New Haven and also into Chester where 

 the people one morning met an army coming 

 through the principal streets of the hamlet. The 

 report says: "An animated dark ribbon, or the 

 folds of an immense serpent, billowed on past, in 

 tiny undulations. It was a wondrous, giant cara- 

 van of strange worms, belting an entire township, 

 which, having filled themselves with the produce 

 of a district further up the valley, were migrating 

 to a new field and pastures green. Many people 

 of Chester came into the street and gazed help- 

 lessly and with much concern at the orderly dis- 

 ciplined column rolling along the street at a speed 

 of 400 or 500 feet an hour. The worms (larva) 



