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Lorlie, Manitoba; Alberta, Saskatoon, Yorkton, Grenfell, Pheasant Forks, and Regina, 
Northwest Territory. According to Fletcher, it is rare toward the eastern and 
western limits of its range. The foreign distribution comprises southern Europe, 
including France, Austria, Germany, Roumania, Western and Eastern Siberia to 
Turkestan. 
DIVISIONAL RECORDS. 
Writing December 1, 1900, Mr. Gregson stated that immediately 
after the receipt of the writer’s letter, dated August 22, be paid a 
visit to the farm where Swede turnips were being injured by this 
species. Many of the beetles were still feeding, and he succeeded in 
securing a number of eggs, as many of the individuals captured were 
in copulation. About this time the weather turned very cold, snow 
falling to a depth of many inches, with an extremely low temperature 
for September, the result being that none of the eggs hatched. The 
eggs obtained by the writer at Washington during the extremely hot 
weather also failed to hatch. 
These observations are in uniformity with those made by M. Lesne 
in Roumania and Dr. Fletcher and his correspondents in the North- 
west Territory of Canada, conclusively showing that eggs do not 
hatch until the following spring. 
According’ to Mr. Gregson’s observations, the eggs are never found 
on growing foliage. They are deposited invariably under dead leaves 
and in similar rubbish on the ground, or under a small clod of earth 
or other shelter about the roots of turnip or other food plant. The 
larvee appear to attack plants chiefly at night. 
Writing August 15, 1900, our correspondent stated that he had 
recently left a district very badly infested with this species. One of 
the farmers whose crop was inspected had just planted out his third 
lot of young cabbages, and had also resown his turnips three times, 
each crop having been destroyed by this pest, larve and beetles of 
which were at work. 
September 6, 1901, Mr. Gregson stated that he had kept careful 
watch for this species during the year, and had made special visits to 
farms where in ordinary years he had always reckoned on finding plenty 
of the beetles. He had also received letters from different farmers 
who had been on the lookout for this species, but the insect had appar- 
ently entirely disappeared, at least temporarily, from that portion of 
Alberta, Northwest Territory. It is probable that atmospheric condi- 
tions have been responsible for the insect’s nonappearance during the 
year. In that vicinity an unprecedentedly wet year was experienced in 
1900, and a still wetter spring and summer followed in 1901. Assuming 
that this has been prejudicial to the beetles, it is quite evident that this 
species is largely dependent upon the weather for its multiplication, 
and that it prefers dry weather. This statement is borne out by M. 
Lesne, who writes that ‘‘droughts favor its multiplication while cold 
and rainy weather greatly retard it.” Had it appeared in consider- 
able numbers, Mr. Gregson writes he would certainly have heard of it. 
