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the summer following, will naturally conclude his application was ef- 

 fectual, when in reality the insects leit of their own accord in the 

 beetle state. 



During their periodical visits as beetles, they should be shaken 

 from the trees, gathered up, scalded and fed to hogs. As an illustra* 

 tion of what may be done in the way of hand-picking, I will state that 

 under the efforts of M. Jules Reiset, the incredible amount of KiO,000 

 kilogrammes, or about eighty millions of similar White grubs were col- 

 lected and destroyed in a portion of the Seine-Inferieure of France, 

 during the autumn of 1S6G. 



The beetles make their appearance in different localities with 

 great regularity every three years, and in a case like that communi- 

 cated by Mr. McCartney, I should advise him to plant freely next 

 spring without fear of their ravages; for he may rest confident that 

 they will issue as beetles next spring and not be very troublesome 

 again, as gribs, till the summer of 1871. At Unionville, according to 

 Mr. A. L. Wiuchell, the beetles appeared "in millions-' last spring, 

 and I hope soon to be able to give the years in which they will appear 

 in the different localities throughout the State. The White Grub is 

 subject to the attack of a curious fungus, which the following item 

 from the Sedalia, Pettis county, Press very well describes : 



" W. B. Porter, of this county, has left at our office a specimen of 

 the White Grub, so formidable as a corn, potato, and grass destroyer. 

 There are two sprouts of green, vegetable growth, growing out of the 

 head of the grub, one on either side, of nearly half an inch in length, 

 resembling a hog's tush in shape. Mr. Porter informs us .that the 

 one presented is by no means an isolated example, but that myriads 

 of them can be found which present the same anomalous combina- 

 tion of animal and vegetable life. Who will explain this aberration 

 from the well settled laws of organic life?" 



In the second volume of the late Practical Entomologist, page 

 16, an account was given of the same fungus, great numbers of the 

 grubs on Mr. Paulding's place at Tipton, Iowa, being affected with it. 

 Dr. Kirtland, of Ohio, also evidently refers to the same fungus as 

 [Fig. 89.] being well known to science in the Prairie Farmer 

 for 1865, Vol. XVI, p. 71. At Figure 89, 1 represent one 

 , of the grubs as it appears when attacked by this fungus, 

 drawn from specimens received from Mr. Porter. The 

 sprouts are almost invariably two in number and pro- 

 ceed from the corners of the mouth, but in one speci- 

 men which I have, there is but one near the mouth, the 

 other protruding from the middle of the back. 



In Virginia the grub seems to be attacked by another fungus, as 

 the following letter of Mr. Sam. H. Y. Early, which was communi- 

 cated to Mr. Walsh by the well known Entomologist, Wm. H. Edwards, 

 abundantly shows : 



