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Dr. Packard, and learned from him that it was the species origi- 
nally described by Say as Iulus annulatus, but referred by Cope to 
the genus Cambala.* During this same month, Prof. French, of 
Carbondale, reported to the ‘Prairie Farmer” the occurrence of what 
was probably the same species of millipede in an old field of straw- 
berries in Carbondale, Jackson county, where it was doing consid- 
erable injury, atticking, however, according to his observations, only 
the over-ripe and softened fruit. 
In the ‘‘Western Rural” for December 22d, Dr. E. L. Sturtevant 
Director of the New York State Experment Station, is said to have 
reported numbers of these insects as occurring under decaying straw- 
berries in New York, as many as twenty individuals being found 
beneath a single berry. 
The earliest American observations of this form of injury to the 
strawberry with which I am acquainted, were recoided in the second 
volume of the American Entomologist, page 59, in the number for 
Noveniber, 1869; where Mr. B. D. Walsh, then State Hntomologist 
of Illinois, repor'ed having found, during the preceding summer, two 
distinct thousand-legged worms, lulus and Polydesmus, burrowing 
in strawberries near Rock Island, Ulinois, but only in very smail 
numbers. A different injury to the plant was described by the 
same writer on page #4 of the Practical Kutomologist for December, 
1866. A correspondent wiiting from New York incloses to Mr. 
Wulsh a specimen cf the genus Julus with the following statement 
concerning its injuries to vegetation: 
“This destructive worm has possession of the length and breadth 
of my garden, and of many others in the vicinity. In the daytime 
it is out of sight, inhabiting the ground, but is eften found on turn- 
ing up a stone or a piece of board. During the night it travels 
about on the surface of the ground. Often in digging I have found 
a nest of them, from the patriarchs of a mahogany eolor, down te 
such as were no bigger than small vieces of white thread. The 
indictment against them is tlis: ‘Lhey feed on the fine fibrous roots 
of most plants, but are especially cesti 
uctive to strawberries. These 
they slowly work at, gradually dwarfing them to mere’weeds, blos- 
soms and fruit having vanished forever. The same dwarfing is seen 
in many other plants, young trees and vines, which must be referred 
to the same agency. ‘heir scattered posilion in the ground effect- 
ually conceals them from any warfare that I am able to wage 
against them.” 
Mr. Walsh regarded the species as new, and described it under 
the name Julus mullisiriatus; but on page 70 of the same volume, 
he identifies this species with Julus ceruleoctinctus of Wood, pre- 
viously described. ; 
A European species of Iulide has long been known to burrow the 
fruit of the strawberry in a manner precisely similar to that here 
reported. In his ‘“‘Hntomologie Her'icole,” Boisduval says that this 
European strawberry millipede, Llaninlus gittulatus, ‘is usually 
found under the straw in strawbeiry beds; it introduces itself into 
the {fruit at the time of maturity, devcurs the pulp, and remains 
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*Proceedings American Philosophical Society, Vol. XI, (1869) p. 181. 
