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was very iiijurioiis to the vine near there, by eating the budi;;. As 

 this flea- beetle has hitely been found to be very destructive under cer- 

 tain circumstances (see Insect Life, vol. y, pp. 334-342) to the peach, 

 pear, plum, and apple, I take this occasion to add cherry to the list. It 

 was observed last year, April 13, gnawing the undeveloped leaf buds 

 of cherry saplings near Eosslyn, Ya. A large number of youjig trees, 

 chiefly pine and locust, had just been cleared away from this spot the 

 previous spring. In this instance it is quite plain that the presence 

 of the insects on the cherry was dae to the absence of the favorite 

 food tree of the species, the locust, iu this locality. 



Xylebonis dispar Fab., one of the " shot-borers,*' is known to injure 

 the vine in Europe, and in this country doubtless has the same habit, 

 I have beaten it from old vines near Washington early in April. 



Anthaxia quercata Fab. — The larva, which resembles those of Chrys- 

 obothris, Dicerca, and other large Buprestidte, was taken at Eosslyn, 

 Va., from its pupal chamber in the old outer bark at the base of a liv- 

 ing and evidently healthy wild grape-vine. At the time of its discov- 

 ery, May 28, tliis larva was motionless, showing that transformation 

 was about to begin. June 2 it became a pupa, and June 14 all parts 

 save the elytra had become dark colored. On the following day the 

 legs unfolded, but the elytra remained uncolored until the 16th, when 

 the transformation was completed. The pupal stage, therefore, lasted 

 fourteen days. Mr. C. H. Roberts has recorded the abundance of this 

 S]3ecies on grape-vine (Am. Ent., vol. v, p. 17) without, however, a con- 

 jecture of this as a larval food-plant, but his discovery of twenty two 

 pairs in copula conclusively proves this, as also what Dr. Horn in his 

 synopsis of the genus had surmised, that quercata and cyaneUa repre- 

 sent sexes of a single si^ecies. I have j^reviously recorded chestnut as 

 a food-plant of this species, and there is no doubt that it breeds also in 

 oak (loc. cit., pp. 31, 217). 



Lyctus opaculus Lee, one of the " powder-post " beetles I have pre- 

 viously referred to as breeding in grape stems infested with Fhyma- 

 todes amoenus (Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. it, p. 393). There is also a 

 divisional record of the occurrence of this species on grape. Speci- 

 mens observed by me several years ago at Ithaca, X. Y., hibernated in 

 the larval condition. The adults began issuing May 8, the species 

 being ijresent in all stages at that date. 



Rypothenemus dissimilis Zimm. — I have also noted the occurrence of 

 this species in grape stems (loc. cit.). 



Finally, should be added three species of Cleridre, all but the last of 

 which have been reared from the vine by the writer. These are : 



Ulasmocerus terminatus Say, recorded from dead vines (Am. Ent., 

 vol. vi, p. 1.j4), and by Dr. J. Hamilton (Can. Ent., vol. xviit, p. 28). 



Chariefisa pUosa Forst., mentioned by Mr. A. I). HoDkins as occurring 

 in dead vines. 



