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Xylotreelim nauticus. — Found several larvne of this species in a dead 

 and dry stump of Quercm agrifoUa December 9, 1889; they bore oval 

 holes in the wood, the holes extending from the interior of the stumj) 

 direct to the surface and continuing nearly through the bark. In some 

 of these burrows I found three dead beetles of X. nauticus. A living 

 beetle was in this box July 17, 1890. 



Ipochus faseiains. — Found four larvai October 10 in dead and dry 

 apple twigs. When extended the body is a trifle thicker at each end 

 than in the middle. August 2 one was still a larva, and in one of the 

 burrows I found a dead beetle. Found several adults of this species 

 beneath projecting bark on apple tree June 4. 



Cassida texana. — Found many larvte and five beetles on Solarium 

 xanti May 12. Beetles issued ]\Iay 29. 



Phloeodes diahoUcus. — Found three larvae in rotten willow stumps 

 February 28. Found one in rotten sycamore log March 24. September 

 8 found several of these larva? in a rotten willow stump, and in the same 

 stump I found a pupa, evidently of this species, and a beetle still in its 

 cell in the rotten wood. 



Coelocnemis californicus. — Three larv.ne were taken, May 20, in a rotten 

 sycamore stump. One pupated July 3 and the beetle issued July 18. 



EARLY PUBLISHED REFERENCES TO SOME OF OUR INJURIOUS 



INSECTS. 



By F. M. Webstek. 



It was in the legislature of one of the western States, I believe, that, 

 in a speech opposing a certain measure, a member stated that we had 

 no destructive insects until the advent of entomologists, and, now, the 

 more entomologists the more bugs and the greater the damage. Among 

 the unentomological an insect is new or old according as it has hap- 

 pened to be observed, and while no one would for a moment concur in 

 the opinion of the statesman, as above expressed, nevertheless even the 

 entomologist is sometimes puzzled to determine whether or not he is 

 dealing with a new subject or an old one, and often, too, after he has 

 carefully followed his new depredator through its entire cycle, at the 

 expense of weeks of study, and publishes his results, ere the ink of the 

 printer is dry, in some old dusty volume, where he least expects it, he 

 will find that as much or even more had been learned years before. 



Then, too, the early history of some of our best known species is en- 

 veloped in obscurity, and it is probable that they were destructive in 

 the fields of the aborigines long before the advent of the white man. John 

 Josselyn, who styled liimself " gentleman," and made a voyage to New 

 England in 1638-'39, and again in 1(363, remaining until 1671, tells us in 

 a record of his voyages that, in the cornfields of the natives, "there is a 



