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most successfully practised by Dr. E. S. Hull, of Illinois, 

 who has invented an inverted umbrella on wheels, which re- 

 ceives the insects, as well as the defective fruits, when it 

 is bumped against the trees. By the use of this, he is en- 

 abled to harvest splendid crops of stone-fruits. 



Fomphopiea Sayi, (or Gantharis pyrivora, of Fitch), 

 is called by him the Pear Blister-fly. He describes it as 

 a long blistering beetle, of a green-blue color ; found on a 

 pear tree about the first of June, eating the young fruit 

 voraciously. 



Euryomia Inda, or the Indian Cetonia, is a beetle about 

 six-tenths of an inch long. The head and thorax dark, 

 copper-brown, thickly covered with short, greenish-yellow 

 hairs ; wing-cases light yellowish-brown, changeable, with 

 metallic tints. These are called flower-beetles, because 

 they consume the pollen, and bury themselves in our flow, 

 ers ; but in the autumn, they consume our choicest fruits, 

 especially peaches. 



Lachnosterna fusca, (Frcelich), is the White Grub, or 

 May Beetle. A heavy brown insect, an inch or more in 

 length, which makes its appearance with the first warm 

 evenings, when the Black Locust begins to open its fra- 

 grant blossoms, to which these beetles are attracted. 

 They also attack the foliage of other trees, particularly 

 the cherry, which they entirely strip of leaves and fruit. 

 Though very destructive in the perfect form, these insects 

 are most to be dreaded while in the larval condition, 

 which is supposed to continue for some years. They then 

 work under cover, and can only be traced by the ravages 

 they commit. Every strawberry grower is familiar with 

 the large White Grub that so often destroys his hopes of 



