142 SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Araiuigus FuUeri (Horn). 

 Fuller'' s Rose Beetle. 



(Ord. Coleoptera: Fam. Otiorhynchid^.) 



Horn: in Proc. Amer. Philosoph. Soc, 1876, xv, p. 94 (orig. description); in 

 Canad. Entom., xvi, 1884, p. 184 (remarks on distribution). 



Riley: in Ann. Kept. Commis. Agricul. for 1878, pp. 255-7, pi. 7, f. 2; Id., Kept- 

 Entomol., 1879, pp. 50-1, pi. 7, fig. 2«-/t; in Amer. EntomoL, 1880, iii, 

 p. 26 (occurrence in California); in Rept. Commis Agricul. for 1884, p. 

 414 (habits in Mass.). 



Comstock: in Ann. Rept. Commis. xlgricul. for 1879, pp. 250-1 (distribution). 



Austin: Check List Coleop. N. A., 1880, p. 44. No. 8841. 



Lintnek: in Count. Gent., xlix, 1884, p. 49 (remedies, etc.). 



Moffat: in Canad, Entomol., xvi, 1884, p. 216 (occurrence- in Canada). 



During the month of December, last, this beetle was reported to me 

 as occurring in great number in the extensive rose-growing establishment 

 of Messrs. Fricker & Clarke, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. It was proving 

 very troublesome and destructive in their houses, and in the latter part 

 of November, the beetles could be seen collected in large clusters upon 

 the bushes. Many had been gathered and destroyed, but they still 

 continued to abound. 



That they should have been permitted to multiply to this extent was 

 certainly inexcusable neglect. 



A Green-house Pest. 



This insect, during the last few years, has attracted considerable at- 

 tention from the injuries committed by it in green-houses. It was first 

 brought to my notice in the year 1874, by Mr. A. F. Chatfield, florist, of 

 Albany, who had found tlie beetles eating the leaves of camellias in his 

 conservatories and injuring the foliage. Soon after this, it appears to 

 have been discovered in the same nefarious work in the green-houses 

 of Mr. A. S. Fuller and otlier gentlemen in New Jersey. Examples of 

 it were sent to Dr. G. H. Horn, of Philadelphia, who, in 1876, finding 

 it to be an undescribed species and quite different from any known 

 form, established a new genus for it, and gave it the specific name of 

 Fnlleri, after the gentleman who had first brought it to his notice, and 

 who is also " a popular author on horticultural and natural history sub- 

 jects, and well and widely known for his interest in entomology," espec- 

 ially in the Coleoptera. 



Distribution and Food-plants. 



Since that time, it has been reported from various localities in the 



