386 



Jchnea laticornis Say, reared from tbe viue by Mr. W. Juelicli (Bnll. 

 Bklyii. Ent. Soc, Vol. iii, j). 140). These species prey ou cerambycid 

 and other borers and are, therefore, to a certain extent beneficial. 



Tims much from personal observation. The following notes have 

 been prepared from data gleaned mainly from published notices and 

 from the divisional record books and correspondence. 



Of the dozen species of vine-chafers of the genus Anomala, two 

 species, A. Incicola and A. marginata, are mentioned in Mr. Bruner's list 

 of grape insects. At least two others, viz, A. undulata Mels. and 

 A. mimita Burm., are destructive to the vine. 



The species described and figured by Harris (Ins. Inj. to Veg., p. 34) 

 as probably A. variann (a synonym of undulata) is evidently not this 

 species, but Incicola. In LeBaron's Fourth Report (p. 89) varians is 

 described and referred to as " the species so common on grape vines in 

 the West." May 14, 1888, we received sx)ecimens of undulata from a 

 correspondent at Greenville, S. C, with the report that they were injur- 

 ing grape, and April 7, 1879, from Dr. Charles Mohr, who stated that 

 they were injuring blossoms of grape, apple, and pear at Grrand Bay, Ala. 



A. mhmla Burm. is mentioned in volume i of Insect Life (p. 220) 

 as injurious in Louisiana vineyards. June 14 of the present year 

 Mr. A. N. Caudell sent specimens from the experiment station at Still- 

 water, Okla., with the statement that they were ravaging grape, doing- 

 much damage by skeletonizing the foliage. 



A. hinotata Gyll. has been included in a list of grape si)ecies by 

 Thomas (Sixth Eept. St. Ent. 111., p. 105), but on what authority I do 

 not know. 



Hoplia caJlipyge Lee. — Siiecimens of this scarabteid were received 

 during May, 1893, from two correspondents in Fresno County, Califor- 

 nia, the first reporting that they were found on roses and afterwards in 

 his vineyard, as many as a hundred on a single vine; the second that 

 they were doing great damage to the Muscat grape (see Insect Life, 

 vol. V, p. 343). In the Pacific Eural Press of May 17, 1890, H. sacTcenii 

 Lee. is mentioned as injurious to the grape in the same district. 



Hhltica carinata Germ. — Mr. D. W. Coquillett furnished us sometime 

 ago with specimens of this flea-beetle from Los Angeles, Cal., with 

 grape leaves injured by them, and mention of this species as an enemy 

 of the grape has been made by Dr. G. H. Horn in his synopsis of the 

 Halticini (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. xvi, p. 223). 



Gastroidea formosa Say is reported in the first volume of this jour- 

 nal (p. 385) as a vineyard pest in Arizona. It is destructive also to the 

 canaigre {Rumex hymenosciyalus). An account of what is undoubtedly 

 the same insect is given in Bulletin No. 9 of the Arizona Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, the species receiving mention as the cahaigre 

 beetle {Gastroidea ctesia hec). The American representatives of the 

 genus Gastroidea are as yet imperfectly known, hnt formosa, according 

 to Dr. J. Hamilton, is an introduced species, synonymous with the 

 European viridula Deg. 



