80 BULLETIN NO. 4, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
bugs made their appearance in countless numbers, but I caught them 
in a cloth; but this year the vines are too large, and I tried several 
remedies and none will move them. Please inform me as soon as possi- 
ble if yon know of anything, and greatly benefit, yours, respectfully.— 
[JOSEPH A. HARPER, Blackshear, Ga., May 10, 1883. 
| The beetle injuring the grape-vines proved to be the Grape-vine Colas- 
pis (Colaspis brunnea Fabr.), treated in our Third Missouri Report, p. 381. 
The larvee feed on the roots of plants, and often do considerable dam- 
age to strawberry plants. The best remedies found are in jarring them 
into sheets saturated with kerosene, and in spraying the vines with a 
Paris green or London purple solution in the proportion of 2 ounces of 
the poison to 10 gallons of water, thoroughly stirred. | 
IT have a vineyard of about 800 plants, of twenty or twenty-five differ- 
ent home varieties. It is in its fourth year on the ground, and up to the 
12th ultimo looked perfectly beautiful and of a luxuriant growth, whilst 
the vines were almost all loaded with fruit of excellent form and size. 
An insect has since made its appearance in myriads and myriads, and 
perforated the leaves in such a way as to cause their becoming dry and 
falling. It attacked almost all varieties, less in some way the Concord, 
although the leaves are fearfully damaged. The grapes, thus far, lost 
none of their vigor, owing perhaps to wet weather, which, unfortunately, 
troubles us for all other crops very much. 
In a separate parcel I send you some insects of the above. Please 
examine them, and let me know their history, and if there is any chance 
of a remedy for their destruction before they destroy our crop. Last 
year, too, we were troubled by the same pests, but to a smaller degree. 
If my statement is any way obscure, please call it to my attention that 
I may furnish you with further information. Our Scuppernongs are 
not damaged, but many weeds with large leaves, such as docks, are per- 
fectly perforated, the same as our grape-vines.—[C. MENELAS, Brook- 
haven, Miss., July 6, 1883. 
[This was same insect and the same advice was sent. | 
STRAWBERRY FRUIT BEETLES. 
Inclosed you will find some insects which have proved very destruc- 
tive to my strawberries. I have only 400 plants in my garden, and 
last year should have been their best bearing year; but the crop was 
entirely destroyed by these insects. They came as the berries commenced 
turning, and we had very few to ripen, as they ate small holes in them, 
and then the whole berry became soft. I salted the vines when they 
were done bearing last year, thinking it might kill the bugs for this 
year. And I thought I had succeeded, as we gathered a splendid crop 
