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the insect fauna of any section is the nature of the flora, both natural 

 and cultivated, as, without food plants, it will be impossible for a 

 herbivagous insect to exist at all. 



The two beetles, Phytonomus punctatits (the Clover Leaf weevil) 

 and Hylastes trifoUi (Clover Root-borer), both came to Ohio via 

 Western New York, spreading out over Western Pennsylvania into 

 Eastern Ohio. (See Mapl.) I saw the former quite abundant at 



llvjU&tes tri^(.U\./ 



Map No. i. 



Chautauqua Lake in the rnost western county in New York, in the 

 autumn of 1888, while the late Dr. John Hamilton, of Allegheny, 

 Pennsylvania, recoi"ds it as occurring in Westmoreland county and 

 also in All^heny county, also in 1888, but stated that up to Decem- 

 ber, 1891, it had not become abundant enough to attract attention- 



