THE 



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A MONTHLY BULLETUST, 



Publislied by the Entomological Society of PMladelphia, for the dissemination of valuable 

 knowledge among Agriculturists and Horticulturists 



Vol. I. 



AUaUST 27, 1866. 



No. 11. 



"ih^ |lrHdicHl (Kntomolagisl. 



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E. T. CRESSON. ") PnsLicATioN Committee 



AUG. R. GROTE, } and 



J. W. McAllister, J Editors. 



BENJ. D. WALSH, Rock Island, Illinois, 



Associate Editor. 



PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 27, 1S66. 



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The "New Potato Bug" in Uaine. 



One day last week a gentleman left at our office a 

 stalk from a potato hill, which was literally covered with 

 the larva of the new potato beetle (Doryphora W-lineaia, 

 Say.) We were absent from the office at the time, and 

 the employee with whom it was left neglected to take hia 

 name or place of residence, or obtain any facts in relation 

 to their numbers and amount of damage. If this should 

 meet the eye of the party who left it, will he be so kind 

 as to favor us with the requisite particulars? Returning 

 home, we found upon examination that our own patch of 

 potatoes was considerably infested with them, and imme- 

 diately commenced a war of extermination by knocking 

 them off into an old pan and destroying them. Specimens 

 have also been sent to Mr. Cresson, the Secretary of the 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia. — Maine Farmer, 

 July 26, 1866. 



Observations by B. D. W. — I take it that the 

 Editor has mistaken the larva of Lema irilineata, 

 a beetle which commonly infests the Potato in New 

 England though it is very rare in Illinois, for that 

 of Doryphora 10-lineata. It is strange, however, 

 that he should say nothing of the excrement which. 

 this larva heaps upon its own back by way of um- 

 brella. We have not as yet received the promised 

 specimens. 



