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sure to perish, and he has also noticed that old beds are more apt to 

 be injured by it than new ones. 



In one of the roots received from him, I found a parasitic cocoon, 

 so that there is every reason to believe that, as is so very generally 

 the case with insects, this noxious species has at least one natural 

 enemy which will aid us in keeping it in due bounds. Indeed, Mr. 

 Miller so often found this parasitic cocoon, that he at first surmised 

 that the Crown-borer spun it. But no snout-beetle larva' spin cocoons. 



This Crown-borer must not be confounded with another white 

 worm of about the same size which lives in the ground and subsists 

 on the roots by devouring them from the outside. This last may 

 always be distinguished by having six distinct legs near the head, and 

 its habits are quite different. It occurs earlier in the season, and, as 

 I have proved the past summer, is the larva of the little clay-yellow 

 beetle, known as the Grape-vine Colaspis (Colaspis Havida, Say). 

 A full account of this last insect, with illustrations, will be given in a 

 later portion of this lleport. 



The Crown-borer belongs to the genus Analcis which is distingu- 

 ished by its sub-cylindrical oblong-oval body, its short robust snout 

 which fits into a deep grove, its 10-jointed antennae, and its simple or 

 unarmed thighs. As it is a new species I subjoin a description of it 

 for the scientific reader : — 



Analcis fragari^e, N. Sp.— Imago, (Fig 14, b, c)— Color depp chestnut-brown, sub-polished, 

 the elytra somewhat lighter. Head and rostrum dark, finely and densely punctate and with short 

 coarse fulvous hairs, longest at tip of rostrum ; antennas rather lighter towards base, 10-jointed, 

 the scape much thickened at apex, join 2 longest and robust, 3 moderately long, 4-7 short, 8-10 

 connate and forming a stout club. Thorax dark, cylindrical, slightly swollen across the middle 

 and uniformly covered with large thimble-like punctures, and with a tew short coarse fulvous hairs, 

 unusually arranged in three more or less distinct longitudinal lines ; pectoral groove ending 

 between front legs. Abdomen with small remote punctures and hairs which are denser towards 

 apex. Legs of equal stoutness, and with shallow dilated punctures and uniform very short hairs 

 Elytra more yellowish-brown, dilated at the lower sides anteriorly, and with about 9 deeply- 

 punctured stria?, the stria? themselves sometimes obsolete ; more or less covered with coarse and 

 short pale yellow hairs which form by their greater density, three more or less conspicuous trans- 

 verse bands, the first of which is at base ; between the second and third band, in the middle of the 

 elytron, is a smooth dark-brown or black spot, with a less distinct spot of the same color below 

 the third, and a still less distinct one above the second band. Length 0.16 inch. 



Described from four specimens bred from strawberry-boring larva;. The black spots on the 

 elytra are quite distinct and conspicuous on two specimens, less so on one, and entirely obsolete on 

 the other. 



Larva, (Fig. 14 a) — White with back arched Lamellicorn-fashion. Head gamboge-yellow, 

 glabrous, with some faint transverse striations above mouth ; mandibles rufous tipped with black ; 

 labrum emarginate, and with palpi, pale. A faint narrow dorsal vascular line. Legs replaced 

 by fleshy tubercles. Length 0.20 inch when stretched out. 



THE PEA-WEEVIL— Bruclius pisi, Linn. 



Our common garden pea has not many insect enemies, for with 

 the exception of the Striped Flea-beetle (Haltica striolata), which 



