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Hach had hollowed out for itself in the ground a little oval cell, 
smooth within, and there, curled up like a white grub, was awaiting 
the chances of the winter. Many hundreds of these larvee were 
unearthed, but not a pupa was found, nor yet a single adult beetle. 
Two of the latter were obtained in strawberry fields at Cobden, in 
December of the present year, showing that a sprinkling of these 
imagos hibernate. That it is only a sprinkling was clear, not only 
from the great numbers of mature larve of the species in the eround 
at the time, but likewise from the fact that adults of Paria aterrima 
were collected by the hundred, although the strawberry roots had 
been much less seriously attacked by that species than by Scelodonta. 
The following spring (April 12th), the larve were still in these 
secure retreats, unchanged, often as many as fifteen or twenty in 
and around a single stool of the plants. On the 16th of this month, 
two adults were seen by Mr. Webster in a strawberry field, but 
these were the only mature individuals captured during several days 
of careful and active field work. 
A number of these encysted larve were brought to the Laboratory 
alive at this time, for the purpose of watching them in their trans- 
formations. 
May 9th, the root-worms were still in their winter condition; but 
on the 20th pupation was well under way, and about half those in 
the fields were now in the pupa stage. A thorough search yielded 
no adult specimens; and no young iarve of any sort were found 
with them. 
On the 7th of June a single adult beetle emerged from the lot of 
larve brought from the South in April, thus giving us the first clue 
to the species we were dealing with. The next day three more 
specimens came out, and on the day following the earth was examined 
carefully, and all the specimens were removed. Fifteen adults of 
Scelodonta were thus obtained, all still in their cells but two; and 
with these were one pupa and three larve, one of which was dead. 
June 15th, many adult Scelodontas were found in the ground in 
Union county, with larve and pupz as well, but no adults could 
be got by sweeping the vines; but June 19th, two more adults 
emerged from a lot of southern larva kept in the Laboratory since 
May. 
On the 25th of June, a specimen was sent me from Michigan, 
purporting to be a “root-worm of the first brood,” but which proved 
on subsequent study to be a larva of Scelodonta. This was the only 
specimen found there in this stage by my correspondent, although 
a number of pup were seen at the same time, which were unfor- 
tunately lost in transit. On the first of July, Mr. C. W. Butler, of 
Anna, reported the frequent occurrence of the adults on heads of 
millet, one pair being taken in copulo, He had also taken the 
trouble to breed a number of the larve from the strawberries, and 
all emerging proved to be Scelodonta pubescens. A few beetles which 
transformed in our breeding boxes, were placed in a cage with grow- 
ing strawberry plants on the 22d of June. They immediately com- 
menced eating the leaves, making small, round holes or emargina- 
tions at or near the edge. Some of these beetles escaped, but others 
lived in the cage until July 30,. when they were removed. The leaves 
