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small pieces of oak-bark, which he places close 

 around the tree with the inner or coucave side 

 appressed to the ground. Stones do not answer 

 well, and corn-cobs are objectionable because 

 it requires so much time to discover and destroy 

 the Curculios, which hide in their deep cavities. 

 Mr. D. N. Brown has apparently suft'ered more 

 this year from the Curculio than any one else. 

 He made the great mistake of supposing that 

 there were none iu his orchard early in the 

 season ; and ere he commenced to battle witli 

 them they had become a mighty host. After 

 killing the beetles, he throws into barrels all 

 the fruit which falls or is jarred olf. In escap- 

 ing from the fruit the worms naturally collect 

 at the bottoms of the barrels, where they are 

 killed by pouring water on tliera. The many 

 barrels of shrivelled, shrunken and rotting fruit, 

 spoke plainly of Mr. B.'s untiring efiorts. and 

 of tl)0 immense work he bad on hand. AVe 

 doubt if he will ripeu a single plum. 



Passing into Ontario, we found the plum- 

 trees overloaded with tine, unblemished fruit, 

 and the contrast was great indeed. We found our 

 friend, Mr. Wm. Saunders, of London, aUo much 

 occupied with, and interested in, the Curculio 

 question, lie was, in fact, carefully counting 

 different lots of this insect which had been re- 

 ceived from different parts of the Dominion ; 

 for be it known, that the enterprising Fruit- 

 growers' Association of Ontario, in its praise- 

 worthy efforts to check the increase of the Cur- 

 culio, offered a cent per head for every one 

 which should be sent to our friend, who hap- 

 pens to be secretary of that body. "What would 

 the people of the "Western States think, if their 

 different Legislatures, or their State Horticul- 

 tural Societies should offer an equally liberal 

 premium per capita for every little Turk cap- 

 tured? Wouldn't they set about capturing them 

 in earnest, though! The Legislature might 

 stand it, and we are not sure but that some such 

 inducement, held out by the State to its fruit- 

 growing citizens, would pay, and prove the 

 most efiective way of subduing the enemy. But 

 the Horticultural Society that should undertake 

 it, would have to be pretty liberally endowed. 

 Just think of it ; ye who catch from three to five 

 thousand per day ! The bugs would pay a good 

 deal better than the peaches. However, very 

 fortunately for the Ontario Fruit-Growers' As- 

 sociation, their good offer did not get noised 

 abroad as much as it might have been, and the 

 little Turk occurs in such comparatively small 

 numbers, that up to the time we left only 10,731 

 had been received. 

 We have much else to say, and some import- 



ant facts to communicate about this destructive 

 insect, but must defer till our experiments are 

 completed at the end of the season. Besides 

 the parasite which we bred through the kindness 

 of Dr. Trimble, we have discovered another 

 which has this year destroyed nearly two-thirds 

 of the Curculio larvas around St. Louis. 



A NEW HESPERLVN. 



An undescribed species was found by the 

 writer, abundantly, on a grassy prairie slope, at 

 Griiinell, Iowa, June 21,1870. Thirty-one S, 

 two $ were taken, all fresh. I have named it 

 from the county, which was named from a 

 friendly chief of territorial times. It is of the 

 size of Ilobomoli, without spots, and is dark 

 brown, with ochre-yellow on front border and 

 nerves of fore wings; the underside of the hind 

 wings is thickly powdered with pale yellow or 

 ashy-white, with conspicuous white veins. The 

 writer would exchange for butterflies not refer- 

 red to in his list in the American Entomolo- 

 gist, April, 1870. The following is a more 

 liarlicnlar il./si-ription ol this new species: 



lli;,-.ii-,i;i.\ I'oWEhiiEiK— N. SI'.— (J and $. Ex- 

 IKiiiil- I.k;— l.ii;. I'liiiiiiries trij;oiial, tlie eilgcMioarly 



nion- ill-tiiK-tly >(> in nur , 

 h-hv^v. Ijueomin- alino.,t wii 

 Tlie undersiile of the p 

 somewhat narrower and 

 pah-r as it is carried aroii 



ul . uliri- pair vrllnwor lioarv white (\an;U.lr, m all tl.e 

 iiitn-par,., rxecpt asefe'mont'bKwca.ii thr inlrnial nerve 

 and tlic second uervure therefrom, widening of course 

 from the base to the exterior edge, where it occupies 

 one-third of the marginal length; this space is wliolly 

 darli brown. M\ the other uervures are conspicuous 

 Willi lioary white, and the internal border likewise. 

 At a little distance, the surface generally seems to be 

 nearly white. 



Tlic body, of the same length as the secondaries, is 

 of the ground color above, with profuse yellow hairs on 

 the sides c.f ilu- thorax and top of the head, and is white 

 and hairv luncath. The liairy palpi, the antenna; and 

 the legs 'simply iv.;-rt.>j"/«i/ in' all particulars with the 

 coloring of the body, above, laterally and beneath, with 

 tho exception that the legs have not a dark shade 

 of brown, and the short antennie, which arc clubbed 



