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Erirhipis Indn Burmeister : Handb. Entouiol., iii, 1842, p. 389. 



Cetonia Inda. Emmons : Nat. Hist. N. Y.— Agricul., v, 1854, p. 79, pi. 12, f. 6. 



E'tryomia {Erirhipis) Inda. Qlovek : in Rept. Cominis. Agricul. for 1868, p. 90, 



f. 84 (habits, etc.). 

 Euryomid Inda. Packard : jGluide Study Ins., 18G9, p. 457 (mention). 

 Euphoria Inda Ge.mminger et IIaroi.d : Catalog. Coleop., 1869. 

 Euri/omia Inda. Crotch : Ch. List Coleop. Amer., 1873, p. 62, no. 3646. 

 Euri/omia Indn. LeBaron ; Fourth Ann. Rept. Ins. 111., 1874, p. 91 (mention). 

 Euryomia Inda. Thomas : Sixth Ann. Rept. Ins. 111. [1877], p. 108 (description, 



habits, etc.). 

 Euryomia Inda-. Lintner : in Count. Gent., xlii, 1877, p. 585(C'«to«?'a) ; in 38th 



Ann Rept. N. Y. St. Agricul. Soc. for 1878, pp. 67-69 ; Separate, as Rept. 



Inj. Ins. for 1878, (1880), pp. 10-13 (habits, description, etc.). 

 Euryomia Inda. Riley : in Ann. Rept. Cominis. Agricul. for 1878, (1879), p. 208, 



(attacking corn); Separate, as Rept. of Entomologist for 1878, p. 4. 

 Euphoria Inda. Austin: Supp. Ch. List Coleop. Amer., 1880, p. 26 (generic 



change). 

 Euryomia Inda. Saunders : in Canad. Entomol., xiii, 1881, p. 1, f. 1 ; in Ann. 



Rept. Ent. Soc. Ontario for 1881, p. 19, f. 3 (brief notice). 



For many of the years of the early growth of entomological science 

 in our country, this species was known under the name by which it was 

 first brought to popular notice in the successive editions of Dr. Harris' 

 valuable Keport on the Insects of Massachusetts, viz., Cetonia Inda, 

 and the common name applied to it at the time — the " Indian 

 Cetonia." Although no longer retained in the genus Celonia, — having 

 since held place in several genera, — and as it may still be subjected to 

 farther change — there seems to be no good reason why the first 

 popular name applied to it should not be continued. 



Alarm Excited by " a New Corn-bug." 

 From various sections of the State of jSTew York and from New Eng- 

 Lmd, complaints were made, during the autumn of 1878, of an insect 

 wliich was proving very injurious to standing corn, by burrowing be- 

 neath the husks and feeding upon the kernels. All the accounts con- 

 curred in the statement that it had never before been known to prey 

 upon corn. The following notice of it is extracted from a New Haven, 

 Conn,, paper of September 7th, 1878 : — 



" The Corn-hug. — The corn-fields of the interior of the State are suf- 

 fering from a brown-colored, six-legged bug, having a broad body and 

 a small head, which starts at the tips of the ears and works through to 

 the butt, devouring the kernels. Meriden and Burlington report the 

 ravages of the pest, A correspondent from the latter place says: 

 'Fields of corn are ruined almost in a single day.' A gentleman, of 

 Woodbridge, picked twenty of the bugs off two ears of corn, August 

 30th, The general impression among farmers is, that this pest will 

 prove more disastrous than the potato-bug." 



From examples received by me, it proved to be no new insect, but 

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