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Grass Eating Grub. (Country Gentleman, for September 22, 1881, 

 xlvi, p. 615, c. 2—14 cm.) 



A grub destroying grass roots in Pownal, Vt., so that the whole turf 

 can be raked off, and at Warrensburgh, N. Y., to the extent that the sod 

 can be rolled up like a mat, is the white grub, Lachnosternafiisca. The 

 insect is difficult to destroy. Belief may be had in plowing and exposing 

 the grubs to birds and its other enemies, and in allowing hogs to root 

 them out. In May and June the beetle may be shaken from trees and 

 killed. 



A Barn Beetle — Lathridius pulicarius. (Country Gentleman, for Sep- 

 tember 29, 1881, xlvi, p. 632, c. 2—11 cm.) 



A beetle, identified as Lathridius pulicarius, is received f rom Westogue, 

 Conn., where it is infesting a barn— on grain bags, a package of tobacco, 

 and "overrunning everything." Little is known of the habits of this 

 beetle. It is not regarded as injurious to any crop, and its abundance 

 in the barn can not be accounted for. 



A Kemarkable Invasion of Northern New York by a Pyralid Insect, 

 Crambus vulgivagellus. [Abstract of a Paper read before the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, at its Cin- 

 cinnati Meeting, in August, 1881.] (Science, for October 1, 1881, 

 ii, p. 467. Proceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, xxx, for 1881, pp. 267, 268.) 



Gives the principal features of the recent remarkable abundance of 

 this insect and its injuries. 



A Peach Pest — Largus Succinctus. (Country Gentleman, for October 

 13, 1881, xlvi, p. 663, c. 1, 2—29 cm.) 



A bug attacking nearly ripened peaches is the above-named species. 

 Its principal features are given. It has not previously been recorded as 

 injurious to fruit. The southern cotton-stainer, Pyrrhocoris [Dysdercus] 

 suturellus, is allied to it. Its injuries to peaches can only be prevented 

 by killing it ; it might be attracted to refuse sugar cane or cotton seeds, 

 as is the cotton-stainer, and then killed with hot water. 



[A more extended notice in the Second Report on the Insects of New 

 Fork, 1885, pp. 1G4-167.] 



Insect Enemies of the Strawberry. (Country Gentleman, for October 

 27, 1881, xlvi, p. 695, c. 2, 3 — 39 cm.) 



Strawberry leaves badly eaten (as described) are received from Lewis- 

 burg, Pa. The injury can not be referi'ed to any known strawberry 

 pest. It was not the work apparently of the strawberry worm. The 

 principal strawberry insects are mentioned, viz., the white grub, the 

 goldsmith beetle [Cotalpa lanigera), Allorhina nitlda, the grapevine 

 Colaspis, the strawberry crown borer, and the strawberry aphis. The 

 depredator may prove to be Paria aterrima Oliv. 



