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hervices as an insect devourer have been altogether too much underrated — 

 the common quail. A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker from Onargo^ 

 111., found six Colorado Potato Beetles in the crop of one that was killed on 

 his place. Among quadrupeds, Dr. LeBaron has shown good reason for 

 believing that the skunk likewise preys upon them. As it is also known 

 to destroy great quantities of the common White Grub, and to clean tomato 

 patches of the Tomato Worm, this much abused beast in a measure compen- 

 sates for its well known disagreeable attributes. 



Among spiders we may mention an undetermined sj)ecies of Phalan- 

 giiim (Fig. 3 represents P. dorsatum, Say). These animals are popularly 



[Fig. 3.] 



called "^Grand-Daddy-Long-Legs " in this country, but are also known as 

 "Harvest-men" and "Grandfather-Gray-Beards," in some parts. They 

 all have similar habits, being carnivorous and seizing their prey very much 

 as a cat seizes a mouse ; but they differ from other spiders in that they bod- 

 ily devour their victims, instead of sucking out their juices. They are 

 known to devour great numbers of plant-lice, and Mr. Arthur Bryant, of 

 Princeton, 111., found them devouring the larvse of our Colorado immi- 

 grants. 



But the most important of our auxiliaries to be added to this list of 

 natural enemies of the Doryphora are to be found in its own Class. They 

 consist of the following species : 



The 15-Spotted Ladybird.— This may be known as the large 15-spotted 



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