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They enter the best built houses, which other pests never enter, nor does cleanli- 
ness about the premises or location on high or low ground seem to make any differ- 
ence. * * * They will walk off of sticky paper, and ‘‘buhach’’ does not affect 
them. To give you some idea of how they run over us, I will say that I can at this 
time (8 p. m.) count over 50 crawling over a small table, about 13 by 3 feet, in front 
of me. 
A letter from the pen of Mrs. A. E. Bush, one of our California 
correspondents, was published concerning this insect in the American 
Naturalist of August, 1882 (pp. 681, 682), and we published a brief note 
from correspondence with Mr. A. A. Eaton, Riverside, Cal., in Insect 
Life, Volume V, page 342. This beetle is a Carabid, and, like most 
species of this family, may be predaceous. A number of the beetles 
were confined in a small box and sent to us by Mr. Hardy, and nearly 
all reached this city in good condition, a very unusual state of affairs 
when it is considered that they were in such close confinement and had 
nothing to feed upon. Even one beetle that died did not appear to 
have been attacked by its fellow prisoners. Possibly the disagreeable 
odor emitted by the beetles may have an effect in deterring others from 
attack. 
A REMEDY FOR FLEA-BEETLES IN CALIFORNIA VINEYARDS. 
We are in receipt of a communication from Mr. E. H. Twight, San 
Francisco, Cal., dated May 15, 1901, in which he states that flea-beetles 
do great damage in California at times, and that if the pests are not 
too numerous they can be fought with a flat with a slot to fit around 
the trunk of the vine, ending ina bag. When this is used early in the 
day, before it becomes too warm, the insects drop in with a slight 
shake of the vine. A man is supposed to treat 200 vines in an hour. 
When the bag is full it is dipped in hot water and the insects fed to 
chickens. 
When the flea-beetles appear regularly every season, our correspond- 
ent states, it is desirable to keep the vineyard free of weeds, bushes, 
dirt, and other accumulations, and in fall place some artificial shelters, 
such as stray covers, about the vineyard on the ground, so that these 
can be burned in winter when the pest seeks them as a shelter in which 
to hibernate. 
INJURY TO RUSTIC CEDAR FENCES AND SUMMERHOUSES BY BORERS. 
May 24, 1900, Mr. J. Harold Austin, Lansdowne, Pa., complained 
of injury by ¢ eyilidian janthinum Lee., judging by his description, 
to a small rustic cabin, built of red cedar, at that place. During the 
past five years injury by C. janthinwm and some few other borers has 
been noticed by the writer to fences and summerhouses and other 
rustic buildings in many suburban homes and public resorts in the 
Vicinity of Washington, D. C. This borer, with Hylotrupes ligneus 
