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near maturity. The date of the remarkable appearance of A. nitida 

 at Washington, was September 14th. iVbout the middle of September, 

 or somewhat later for more northerly latitudes, would therefore be a 

 proper time for searching for these larvns. The experiment might also 

 be made, when their presence is suspected in grass-plots, of sprinkling 

 the ground copiously with water, in the hope tha.t they will pre- 

 sent themselves above ground in response to the invitation. 



Crioceris asparag'i (Liun. 

 The Asparagus Beetle. 



(Ord. COLEOPTERA : Fam. CHRYSOMELIDi*;.) 



LiNN/EUS : Faun. Suec.,1796, Ed. i, p. 151; Ed. ii, p. 173; Syst. Ent., p. GOl, no. 113 

 Westwood : Introduc. Mod. Class. Ins., i. 1839, p. 374, f. 45, nos. 15-18 (figs, of 



eggs, larva and imago). 

 KoLL.\R: Ins. Inj. Garden, etc., 1840, p. 140 (general description of larva and imago ■ 

 Curtis : Farm Insects, 1860, p. 307 (mention). 

 FiTCii : in Count. Gent., xx, 1863, pp. 81, 83 (discovery, transformations, etc.); in 



Trans. N. Y. St. Agricul. Soc, xxii, 1863, pp. 659-668 (introduction, dis- 

 tribution, life history, etc.); Sixth-Ninth Repts. Ins. N. Y., 1865, pp. 



177-185 (same, and figures from Westwood). 

 Glover ; in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1865, p. 91 (importation). 

 Wlsh.-Ril. : in Amer. Entomol., i, 1868, pp. 114, 115, f. 94 (history, and figures 



from Westwood). 

 Packard : Guide Study Ins., 1869, p. 503 (notice of introduction); in Ninth Rept. 



G.-G. Surv. Terr., 1877, p. 764 (brief notice). 

 DoDOE : in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1870, p. 513 (damages). 

 . in Count. Gent., xsxvii, 1873, p. 530, c. 3; Id., xlvi, 1881, p. 391, c. 1 



(remedies). 

 Crotch: Check List Coleop. Amer., 1873, p. 94, no. 5558. 

 Thomas : Fourth Rept. Ins. 111., 1874, p. 165 (mention); Sixth Rept. do., [1877], p. 



158 (description and remedy). 

 Fuller: in Count. Gent., xli, 1876, p. 683; Id., xliv, 1879, pp.743, 791; in Amer. 



Entomol., iii, 1880, pp. 3-5 (lime remedy). 

 Ormerod ; Rept. Inj. Ins. for 1877, (1878), p. 17 (remedy); Manual of Inj. Ins., 



[1881], pp. 1-3 (description, remedies and figures). 

 COMSTOCK : in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1879, (1880), p. 316-318, pi. 3, f. 4 



(notes and original figures). 

 Lintner : in Count. Gent., xlvi, 1881, p. 243 (history, description, habits and 



remedies). 



This beetle seems steadily to be extending its depredations to new 

 localities, as complaints are being made from time to time, of its first 

 appearance in different places, and information is solicited of its habits 

 and the means of destroying it. It is fortunate, in view of its de- 

 structiveness, that its progress, unlike that of another member of its 

 family — the Colorado potato-beetle — is quite slow, and that it as yet 

 gives no manifestation of its distribution throughout the United States. 



