76 BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VII. September 1884. ]. 
C. lepida. Rare, solitary; occurs only in localities where salt exists 
to some extent. When approached they fly directly up in the air and 
then fly over your head and alight behind you; whether they invariably 
fly in this manner I will not say, but all that I have taken here have 
done so ALFRED W. JONES. 
Mr. Ottomar Reinecke sends a slip from his paper, the ‘‘Buffalo 
Freie Presse” of Aug. 12, 1884, recording an invasion of Phyfonomus 
opimus, Lec., said to be an imported species; a free translation of which 
is as follows. Last season the writer received specimens of this species 
from Rochester and during the past two weeks the beetles, favored by the 
prevalent east winds, have appeared in immense numbers. During the 
last few days pedestrians may have noticed mud colored pellets moving 
on the pavement. This closely examined proved to be the Curculio 
above named. ‘Thousands were trodden under foot and destroyed. 
Many were carried by the wind into the lake, and not a few met their 
death in this uncongenial element. However, the beetles have the power 
of closing their stigmata and remaining in an apparently lifeless condi- 
tion for some time. At date the shores of the lake are covered with 
millions ofthe beetles. Cast up, they soon recover from the effects of 
their involuntary bath, and hastening to the nearest clover fields fulfill 
their life mission—i.e. deposit eggs—and then die. The egg transforms 
into a footless grub living in stems and roots of clover and causes enorm- 
ous damage, as may be witnessed at present by thousands of acres of 
burnt vegetation in the vicinity of Rome, Utica and Syracuse. 
How to combat this pest is another problem for the farmer—or the 
economic Entomologist. 
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Allorhina nifida was common through the Carolinas and Georgia 
attacking the shade trees: Near Raleigh on avenue of Walnuts was 
specially infested. They appeared to bite through the bark making a 
hole + inch wide and 3 to } long. The bark seemed to be softened with 
some exudation from the mouth. Most of the cuts I examined reached 
only to the wood, but a few were much deeper. In the deeper holes I 
found Crypiarcha ampla curled up. 
Trichius delta was abundant in North Carolina upon a species of 
Achillia. I found only one specimen of Zvichius affinis in its company. 
