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small pieces of oak-bark, which he places close 

 around the tree with the inner or concave 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 theii deep cavities. 

 Mr. D. N. Brown has apparently suflered more 

 this year trom the Curculio than any one else. 

 He made the groat mistake of supposing that 

 there were none in his orchard early in the 

 season; and ere he commenced to battle with 

 them they had become a mighty host. After 

 killing the Ijeetles, he throws into barrels all 

 the fruit which falls or is Jarred off. In escap- 

 ing from the fruit the worms naturally collect 

 at the bottoms of the barrels, where they are 

 killed by pouring water on tliem. The many 

 barrels of shrivelled, shrunken and rotting fruit, 

 spoke plainly of Mr. B.'s untiring efforts, and 

 of the immense work he had on hand. "\Vc 

 doubt if ho will ripen a single plum. 



Passing into Ontario, we found the plum- 

 trees overloaded with fine, unblemished fruit, 

 and the contrast was groat indeed. We found our 

 friend, Mr. Wm. Saunders, of London, also nuuh 

 occupied with, and interested in, the Curculio 

 question. He was, in fact, carefully counting 

 different lots of this insect which had been re- 

 ceived from ditVercnt 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, olfered a cent i^cr 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 effective 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 10,701 

 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 e.x'periments arc 

 completed at the end of the season. Besides 

 the parasite which we bred through the kindness 

 of Dr. Trimble, wo have discovered another 

 which has this year destroyed nearly two-thirds 

 of the Curculio larvre around St. Louis. 



A NEW HESPERIAN. 



An undescribed species was found by the 

 writer, abundantly, on a grassy prairie slope, at 

 GrinncU, Iowa, Juno 21,1870. Thirty-one r?, 

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

 from the county, which was named from a 

 friendly chief of territorial limes. It is of the 

 size of Hohomok, 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-Avhite, vAt\\ conspicuous white veins. The 

 writer would exchange for butterflies not refer- 

 red to in his list in the American Entomolo- 

 cisT, April, ^1870. The following is a more 

 particular description ot this new s))ecies: 



llEsi'EKiA I'ovvEsnuiK— N. SI'.— c? lU'il $■ Ex- 

 pands l.lu — 1.2(i. I'l'imaries trigonal, the eclgi'f. nciirly 

 stniiglu, ani;lrs liut sliglitlv roinidiHl. and tlio lengtli of 

 till; costal liorder to tli'e internal as (IS toW. Seconda- 

 ries more rounded, (inmnd-eolm- nC holli wings, aliove 

 and beneath, silky dark lirown, with a puriilish gloss. 

 Prim.aries are ochre hetweeu the costal edge andsiiljcos- 

 tal nerve, the color narrowing and shading oH' near the 

 ape.x, where it appears mostly, if at all, on the ner\ iiles, 

 as it does also brokenly .and in varying amount on the 

 basal half or nioi-e ol Ihc other nerves, ncrvules anil 



internal border. S times Ihc yellow scales encroa<'h 



on the interspaces. Secc.ndnrbs with long yellowish 

 hairs, lingeil urcen or brown in dill'erent lights, on the 

 basal and ciiitral area. Fringe on both wings, above, 

 is black ill iim^t ^ specimens, with an intermixture of 

 vcllowisli-white and ashy scales on the primaries, ex- 

 cept near the angles; in a few individuals this inter- 

 mixture, with pale roots and tips, occurs on both wings, 

 more distinctly so in one of the two $ $ collecteil, the 

 fringe becoming almost wholly gray in the other. 



The underside of the primaries has the costal color 

 somewhat narrower and paler, and the color is still 

 paler as it is carried around the apex, whence it ex- 

 tends, most often narrowly, two-thirds the length of 

 the external edge, shading into the ground color to- 

 wards the disk; and there is a similar but lighter color 

 on the branches of the subcostal and median nerves, 

 som. times almost gray . The underside of the seconda- 

 ries is occiipieil by ochrey hairs ami scales between the 

 costal edge and costal nerve, and has a thick sprinkling 

 of either^pale yellow or hoary white (variable) in all the 

 interspaces except a segment between the internal nerve 

 and the second nervuro therefrom, widening of course 

 from the b,ase to the exterior edire, where it occupies 

 one-third of the marginal length; this >p:hr is wlmlly 

 dark brown. All the other nerviires aiv r,,ii-piriious 

 with hoary white, and the internal border likewise. 

 j\t a little distance, the surface generally seems to be 

 nearly white. 



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

 of the ground color above, with profuse yellow hairs on 

 the sides of the thorax and top of the head, and is white 

 and hairv beneath. The hairy jialiii. the aiiteniue and 

 the legs"simplv corre^wni in all parliculars 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 antenna;, which are clubbed 



