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ing a round hole in the side. These beetles may be found upon 

 the vines some time after the blossoms have disappeared. I 

 have known them to eat into a cranberry, making a round hole 

 large enough to admit the insect ; but it is seldom that it does 

 this. It also eats a little upon the under leaves, but I have 

 never known it to deposit its eggs within the fruit, and I have 

 never found the grub elsewhere than in the bud. I have taken 

 this beetle upon the fruit of the blackberry, in company with 

 other species of Anthonomus. 



" This insect is not numerous anywhere, but is more common 

 at Eastham than at any other locality that I have visited. As I 

 have never seen one upon a bog that had been flowed during 

 winter, I think that it will never become troublesome on such 

 bogs at least. The larvae are killed by a minute chalcis fly, as 

 I discovered the past season." 



INJURING THE CURRANT. 



The cross-lined Choerodes. — This is not an uncommon moth, 

 which I suspect feeds usually on the maple, but has been de- 

 tected by Mr. F. W. Putnam feeding on the currant, specimens 

 in the Museum of the Peabody Academy being thus labelled : 

 " Larva on the currant the last of July. Moth appeared August 

 6th." It makes a loose silken cocoon within a rolled up leaf. 



It is the Choerodes Iransversata Walker, and is a large, fawn- 

 colored moth, expanding two inches, and the apex of the fore 

 wings is somewhat sickle-shaped, while both wings are angulated 

 in the middle of the outer edge. 



The body and wings are uniformly fawn-colored, the costa of 

 the fore wing being a little lighter and crossed by small linear 

 dark brown spots. A slightly waved line crosses the fore wings 

 just before their middle, and is much curved outwards below the 

 costa, and at the outermost point of this angle is a minute black 

 dot, consisting of a few black scales. Another line, edged ex- 

 ternally with whitish scales, crosses the wing, beginning on the 

 outer third of the inner edge, running obliquely to near the 

 apex, when it makes an acute angle, and reaches the costa a 

 short distance from the apex, which is sharp. On the hind 

 wings is a similar straight line situated just within the middle. 

 The wing is angulated in the middle, and slightly hollowed out 

 beneath the angle. The head is whitish between the antennae, 



