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They live largely on decaying vegetable matters, however, and 
some of the species, at least, clearly prefer these to the fresh tissues 
of plants. The eggs of the lulide may often be found in the spring, 
in masses of from sixty to seventy, in holes excavated in the ground. 
The young are quite different in appearance from the adults, having 
but eight rings and but few legs. Their development is rapid, and 
they probably attain their full maturity before midsummer. Many 
of the adults live over winter, and may be found in early spring in 
the usual places selected by insects for their hibernation. The 
Tulide are chiefly nocturnal animals, remaining concealed by day 
and wandering freely about at night. The only mode of destroying 
them which has hitherto proved useful, is that of entrapping them 
by slices of potato, turnip, apple, or masses of other attractive food 
scattered through the field, and covered with pieces of board, under 
which the myriapods will collect during the night in considerable 
numbers. I[f these lures are then visited late in the evening, and 
very early in the morning, before the worms have scattered to their 
hiding places, they may often be captured by scores and hundreds 
and killed in hot water or kerosene. 
Dr. Sturtevant trapped them successfully in a garden where they 
were injuring Sweet Williams, by exposing small lumps of mingled 
flour and molasses, taking as many as thirty-five worms at a time, 
under a lump the size of a silver dollar; but attempts to poison 
them with Paris green were total failures, this substance having 
no apparent injurious effect on them. 
D. Issurtnc THE Crown or THE Matin Root. 
1. Boring out the interior. 
a. A small, reddish caterpillar, with sixteen legs. 
Tue STRAWBERRY Crown Miner. 
Anarsia lineatella, Geller. 
Order Leprpoptera. Family Tineine. 
(Plate VI, Figs. 5 and 6.1 
This species having been already treated in my preceding report, 
the reader is referred to that publication, pages 76-82. 
