ture more readily. This mixture over the surface of the seed corn 

 will also prove destructive to wire worms and other insects which 

 might attack it. It is said that crows will not disturb corn which has 

 been treated with Paris Green. We would very much like to have 

 farmers who are troubled b}' crows, try this remedy and report the 

 results to this station. 



Blephakida nufus .—a, egg; b, b, egg masses; c, c, c, c, c, larvw; d, cocoon; e, pupa : 

 f, beetle ; g, It, i, j, /,-, mouth parts of larvae ; I, leg. (After Riley) . 





THE JUMPING SUMACH BEETLE. 



This insect (Blepharida rhois, Forst.) has not been reported from 

 New P^ngland before, so far as I can learn, but is common in the 

 southern and western states where it is said to do very great injury 

 to the different species of sumach. 



In this State they are very destructive to the Smoke-tree or Purple- 

 fringe (Rims cotinus), in fact they completely destroyed one of these 

 shrubs on my grounds, giving me every opportunity to study their 

 habits and experiment on them with insecticides. 



The natural history of this species has been admirably presented 

 by Prof. Riley in his Sixth Entomological Report of Missouri, but as 



