REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 43. 



dry land fields in the eastern part of the state this insect did con- 

 s'derable damag^e. The insect is much more liable to be mjurious on 

 elevated lands and benches. 



A MAY BEETLE AT CHESNUT, Lachnostema near fasca. 

 Family ScaraBuEid^, Order Coleopteka. 



We were informed early in May that g^eat numbers of a large 

 sized beetle had made their appearance in the vicinity of Chesnut. 

 No damage was reported but the residents were interested to know 

 about the insect. Accordingly on the eleventh we drove to Chesnm 

 and found the beetles flying in abimdance over the hill slopes. 

 Specimens were captured and brought home. They turned out to 

 be an unrecognized species near Lachnostema fusca. The 

 grubs of these beetles are U shaped. They live in the soil where 

 they feed on the roots of plants, and are well known to every tiller 

 of the soil. No injuries to vegetation need be feared from these 

 insects. 



GRASSHOPPERS.' Order Orthoptera. 



The outbreak of grasshoppers which amounted almost to a 



scourge a few years ago has not entirely abated, as is shown by the 



fact that in some parts of the state they were very abundant this 



season and in one locality on the Flathead Indian Reservation, over 



a wide extent of territory in the vicinity of Selish and St. Ignatius, 



they were so abundant as to attract considerable attention from the 



public. In this case, as in the cases previously reported, the principal 

 •species concerned were Melanopulus atlanis, Riley, and Aulo- 



■cara elliotti, Thom., though as also in the case of the outbreak 



in the eastern part of the state, various other species were present 



in varying numbers. 



THE CABBAGE APHIS, Aphis brassicse Linn. Family Aphi- 

 DiiD^- Order Hemipteea. 



The cabbage aphis is abundant and destructive each year, 

 though in some years it is much more numerous than in other*. 

 This season it has been abundant and we have had occasion fre- 

 quently to prescribe remedies' and to send out our previously issued 

 bulletins on the subject. The species occurs throughout the state. 



