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Judge Brown, in Villa Ridge, in the extreme southern part of the 

 State. From this account, which I will not repeat here, it appears 

 that their attack in this case was directed more particularly against 

 Norton's Virginia, while the Concords and Ives remained compara- 

 tively exempt. Mr. Ayers states that when first discovered, about 

 sundown, " they were flying close to the ground in a zig-zag style, and 

 in such numbers as to sound like a swarm of bees." Dr. Le Baron, 

 to whom some of the leaves which had been injured were sent, states 

 that, "they resembled a piece of coarse, irregular net-work, all the 

 larger veins and part of the smaller ones being left." It also appears 

 from the same account that this species is really a night feeder, not- 

 withstanding the general opinion to the contrary. Their time of ap- 

 pearance in Villa Ridge was in the latter part of June; and in that 

 instance continued their operations but one or two nights, and then 

 descended a few inches into the soil, where, according to [Mr. Ayres, 

 it appears that they pared, and the female deposited their eggs. 



Remedies. — As they appear very suddenly, operate rapidly, and 

 disappear as suddenly, it is difficult to devise any method of counter- 

 acting them. As they readily drop from the vines when disturbed, 

 Dr. Le Baron suggests shaking them into a sheet and destroying them, 

 so far as it is possible to do this af night while feeding; where they 

 remain during the day in such numbers is not known ordinarily; I 

 have found them during the day in the fields on weeds, blackberry 

 bushes and other shrubs. Dusting the leaves with lime or syringing 

 with some obnoxious fluid has been recommended, but to be effectual 

 if at all, they must be detected when they first appear and the appli- 

 cation made at once, or in advance if there is reason to anticipate 

 them. 



Fortunately they never appear in destructive numbers. 



-Linn. (The Spotted Vine-chafer). 



This is a large oval-shaped 

 beetle about one inch long and 

 half an inch or a little more 

 in width ; of a shining brown- 

 ish-yellow or clay color above, 

 with a small black spot on 

 each side of the thorax, and 

 three similar spots on each 

 wing-case ; of a deep bronzed 

 or blackish-green color be-' 

 neath. The broad, straight, 

 flat face has no cross line di- 

 viding the lower portion from 

 the upper as is usual. 



Prof. Riley, who first de- 

 scribed the larva, says it is a 

 large, clumsy grub, bearing a 



Peuhnota itnttita, Linn.— o. larva: e. its antenna: close resemblance to the COm- 

 /, leg: d, tip of abdomen; b, pupa, in its cell, the walls mrm whifp o-rnb of our nipfl- 



of which are composed of particles of w i and excre- " lon ""7, fo r \ '" Ui " U1 II ^' 1 



ment: c, beetle. dows. and it differs from that 



species principally in being wrinkled, and in having the skin more 



polished and of a pure white color, and in the distinct heart-shaped 



r^I.IDXOTA PUNCTATA- 

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