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Sweet Pea. Although a Larg? patch of the hitter was within three 

 feet of some of my trees, I failed to find a single specimen on 

 them. lean find only a very meagre description of the insect 

 in any of the books I have at hand, and fail to find any account 

 of its life history. Packard describes the larva of the Gal- 

 cruca, as follows : "When about to transform it fastens itself by 

 its tail to the surface of the leaf." Two days before the insect ap- 

 peared on my trees there were certainly no larvse on the leaves, 

 and to all appearances it appeared in a swarm in one night. 

 Paris green or hellebore ajipeared to have little or no efiect on 

 them. A number put under glasses seemed to thrive in the dry 

 Paris green, and at the end of three days were as lively as ever. 

 Picking them off by hand was the only remedy. Two or three 

 days sufficed to rid the trees of them, and no more appearing 

 gives one the impression that they must have flovi'n from a dis- 

 tance. 



I am indebted to J. Alston Mofi'att, Esq., Curator of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, for valuable information in 

 reference to the above. 



