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iris, etc., eating the flowers and not the foliage. They appeared sud- 

 denly, over night. There was no special wind or other climatic condi- 

 tions noticed. They were exterminated by hand, and after a heavy rain 

 at night none appeared next day. 



The other Stockbridge correspondent, on June 23, wrote: — 



Three days ago I found these beetles eating the roses in the garden. 

 They lighted, half a dozen or so, on one rose and devoured it rapidly. 

 They were either so sluggish or so hungry that they were easily caught 

 and the gardener drowned several hundred in an hour. Since then I 

 have seen only a few scattered individuals. They seem tenacious of life, 

 as specimens have lived three days in a box. 



