THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 77 



root borer, he did not say a single word about the $ antennae being blpectinafe, if we are to judge- 

 from the account he gives in a Report made to the American Pomological Society in 1854 (p 10.) 

 Either his $ specimens had lost their antennae, or the pectinations were rubbed off, the former 

 being the more likely occurrence. Certain it is that tbe males received by Dr. Harris once had 

 pectinated antennas, for though Mr. Glover, copying after Harris, likewise fails to mention this 

 sexual character in his account published in the Patent Office Report for 1854 (p. 80), he neverthe- 

 less plainly figures the pectinations (Ibid, PI. 6, lower ric,'ht hand figure) and the specimens from 

 which he made the figure were received from the very same person who furnished Dr. Harris with 

 his specimens. 



Unlike the Peach Borer which makes its abode quite near the 

 surface, this borer lives exclusively under ground, and unlike the 

 Gigantic root-borers which hollow out and bore up along the heart of 

 the roots, it confines itself almost entirely to bark and sap wood, and 

 the effects of its work are consequently more fatal to the vine. Roots 

 attacked by it, to use one of Mr. Walsh's expressions, look " as if a 

 drunken carpenter had been diligently scooping away the sap-wood 

 with a quarter-inch gouge." It must, however, sometimes hide under 

 the bark of the roots ; as Mr. H. J. Kron of Albemarle, North Carolina, 

 in the Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture for 1867, (p. 

 829), describes it as being shielded by the bark. 



Remedies — It has been ascertained by observation and experi 

 ment that the Scuppernong grape-vine — which, according to Gray, is 

 a cultivated variety of the Southern Fox Grape (vitis vulpina)—i$ 

 never attacked by this borer, and consequently that other varieties 

 grafted on to the Scuppernong share its immunity from attack. This 

 is a very easy mode of preventing its ravages in the more Southern 

 States where the Scuppernong flourishes ; and if this borer should ever 

 become very numerous with us, it may be deemed advisable to in- 

 troduce that stock here. At present we have no other preventive 

 than mounding, and the insect is so comparatively scarce that I have 

 not yet had an opportunity of testing whether such mounding would 

 work as well as it does with the Reach Borer. When it is once ascer- 

 tained that the borers are at work on a vine, they may be destroyed 

 by clearing away the earth and applying hot water to the roots. 



THE SPOTTED VELWNOTA—Pellchiota punctata, Linn. 



(Coleoptera, Scarabreida?.) 



This is the largest and most conspicuous beetle that attacks the 

 foliage of the Grape-vine, and in the beetle state it seems to sub- 

 sist entirely on the leaves of this plant, and of the closely allied 

 Virginia Creeper. Though some years it becomes so abundant 

 as to badly riddle the foliage of our vineyards, yet such instan- 



