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manner in which it injures the vine is by cutting straight elongated 

 holes of about | inch in diameter in the leaves, and when numerous 

 it so riddles the leaves as to reduce them to mere shreds. The pre- 

 paratory stages of this beetle are not yet known. 



Remedies. — Luckily this beetle has the same precautionary habit 

 of dropping to the ground, upon the slightest disturbance, as has the 

 Plum curculio, and this habit enables us readily to keep it in check. 

 The most efficient way of doing this is by the aid of chickens. Mr. 

 Peschell, of Hermann, on whose vines this beetle had been exceed- 

 ingly numerous, raised a large brood of chickens in 1S67, and had them 

 so well trained that all he had to do was to start them in the vine- 

 yard with a boy in front to shake the vines, and he himself behind the 

 chicks. They picked up every beetle which fell to the ground, and in 

 this manner he kept his vines so clean that he could scarcely find a 

 single beetle in 1868. 



THE GRAPE CODLING, PentHna vitivorana, Packard.— Plate 2, 



Figs, 29 and 30. 



(Lepidoptera, Tortricidse.) 



Although the preceding insect has been so scarce in 1868, yet the 

 Grape has been worked upon in a somewhat similar manner, and even 

 to a greater extent, by the insect now under consideration. Indeed 

 there is very little doubt that Mr. Walsh, not being acquainted with 

 this insect, confounded its work with that of the Grape curculio, in 

 some of the instances, of the damage done by this last, which are 

 quoted by him in his report, and this is especially the case in the in- 

 stance of Mr. M. C. Read of Hudson, Ohio. 



I first received this insect, with an account of its workings, from 

 Huron Burt, of Williamsburg, and subsequently during the month of 

 July, found it universal in the vineyards along the lines of the Pacific 

 and Iron Mountain Railroads. It was found equally common around 

 Alton in Illinois, while Dr. Hull informs me that it ruined 50 per cent, 

 of the grapes around Cleveland, Ohio, the Concord and Ives Seedling 

 being the only varieties which appeared to resist its attacks. It also 

 occurs in Pennsylvania, judging from articles which appeared in the 

 November and December numbers of the Practical Farmer'. In 

 these numbers my esteemed correspondent, Mr. S. S. Rathvon, of Lan- 

 caster, Pennsylvania, gives an account, with description, of some 

 worms which were sent to him by the editors, answering in every re- 

 spect to this Grape codling. Concluding, from its similarity to the 

 common Apple-worm, that the insect belonged to the genus Garpo- 

 eapsa, he proposed for it the name of Garpoca/psa vit /'sella, without 

 having bred the parent moth. In the June number of the America/) 



