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The latter are believed by Dr. Lockwood to prefer cultivated land 
for the deposition of their eggs, differmg in this respect from the 
June beetles, which find their favorite breeding place in old sod. 
The adults are similar in habit to Lachnosterna. They are known 
to feed upon the leaves of pear, hickory, poplar, and oak, as well 
as sweet-gum and blackberry. They feed in the morning and even- 
ing twilight, flying and buzzing about among the trees and showing 
the same susceptibility to heht as the June beetle. The injury to 
the strawberry of which the larva is capable, may best be described 
in the words of Dr. Lockwood himself. 
‘When on a visit in September last to the farm of a celebrated 
strawberry grower, in Monmouth county, N. J., my attention was 
directed to certain large patches badly thinned out by, as the phrase 
went, ‘the worm.’ The plants were dead on the surface and easily 
pulled up, the roots being eaten off below. 
It was observable that the fields which presented the worst ap- 
pearance were all of the same kind of plant; that known as Wil- 
son’s Albany Seedling. Besides this, there were nine other varieties 
under culture: Barnes’ Mammoth, Schanck’s Excelsior, the Agri- 
culturist, Triomphe de Gand, Cutter’s Seedling, the Jucunda, Pine 
Apple, Early Scarlet, and Brooklyn Scarlet. While the Wilson stood 
second to none of these as a prolific fruit-bearer, yet it fell behind 
them in vigorous plant growth. Hence, while every kind was more 
or less affected, the other varieties seemed saved by their own 
growth and energy from a destruction so thorough as was that of 
the Wilson. These patches were all planted in the spring, and all 
received the same treatment, the ground being kept open and free 
from weeds. The amount of the spring planting was seven and a 
half acres. 
Of the Wilson’s there were three different patches, in places quite 
separated from each other, and on not less than five different kinds 
of soil. These patches were among and contiguous to those of the 
other varieties. While all suffered more. or less, the chief injury 
befell the Wilson’s, of which not less than two acres were irretriev- 
ably ruined. 
An examination turned up the depredator, who was none other 
than the larva of the Goldsmith beetle, now engaged in the first 
one of its allotted three summer campaigns of mischief. These 
grubs were from the eggs deposited in June, in the well tilled and 
clean soil, which, | have said elsewhere, I thought the Cotalpa pre- 
ferred to meadow or grass lands.” 
Respecting remedies, the remarks made under the preceding species 
will apply to this. 
