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Grape-vine Fidia — /. JTetzel, BunJctr Hill, Ills. — 

 The chestnut -ln'own beetle on your grape-vines is 

 tlie Gnipe-vine Fidia {FiJia nticida, [Flit, isa,] 



AValsh, Fig. 188). It iloesniuuh injmj —T^^,^^-''^ 

 to the vines by ridilling the leaves. n::^ {"«__/ 

 Lucliily this beetle has the same pre- 

 cautionary habit of dropping to the 

 ground, upon the slightest disturb- 

 ance, as has the Plum Curculio, and V. ~-~' /j 

 this habit enables us to keep it in check- 



• The most etlieient way of doing this Coior-chciiuii-bruwu 

 " with a tirayisn pub- 



is by the aid of chi<kens. The laic wccnce. 



■\Vin. Peschell, of Hermann, Mo., on whose vines this 



beetle had been exceedingly numerous, rai.sed a large 



brood of chickens in 18(i7, and had them so well trained 



that all lie had to do was to stiu't them in the \ ineyard 



with a boy in front to shake the vinos, and be himself 



behind the chicks. The chicks picked up every beetle 



which fell to the ground, and in this manner Mr. V. 



kept his vines so clean that he could scarcely find a 



single beetle in 1S08. 



Bee Nest—./. A', ihihlemai,, Wouillmrn, JU^.— Tin- 

 small bee spoken ol on page 214, which we supposed 

 might produce Ceratina diqda, Say, produced ill reality 

 Proaopis ajfinis, bniith. The species was kindly deter- 

 mined by Mr. E. T. Cresson, and you will liml the 

 original description in Mr. .Smith's Catalogue of Hy- 

 menoptera in the British Museum, part I, page 24. 



Some Intcreaitiiig Insects — A. S. Fuller, Sitlge- 

 wood, N. J. — Vou have our thanks for your numerous 

 kindnesses. The following condenseil answers should 

 have been published last month : [1 ] The wc(n il in 

 Lima beans, which you suppose to be the imported 

 BrucJim gramiriua, are not that insect, but a native 



•>/ species (A>u(A«« nhsoUtus, Say) which we have several 

 times referred to, and which is doing much damage to 

 beans in various parts of the I'ountry. [2.] The ear of 

 Hint corn was infested by the larva of the Angouniois 

 (train Moth {Ridalis cerealella,* Oliv.), of which you 

 will And a full acctount in Harris, and in Fitch's Sevenlli 

 lleport. We have bred many moths from it. [■!.] The 

 large moth of a lieautil'ul yellow color, sprinkled and 

 marked with purple-brown, is the Imperial Dryoeauipa 

 {[h-ijucampa impcrialis, Drury). [4.] The brown woi'nis 

 whieli fold the leaves of the Hickory to.;;i'lher by a tor- 

 tuous silken case, were dead on arrival, and are new 



, to us. W'c have bred from similar hickory cases a phy- 

 tophagic variety of Phyclta nehihi, Walsh, [a.] The 

 smooth, narrow-cylindrieal galls. 0.10 — 0.1.') inch long, 

 of a straw color, anil inserted in a rough socket, which 

 galls you lind on the underside of hickory leaves, are 

 the Tubular Hickory gall ( t'ociVomi/iu tuhicolm, O. ».), 

 and are produced by a gall-gnat. [0.] The blackberry 

 borer which arrived during our absence, and was dried 

 up, was evidently the larva of the conjmon species or 

 'J'hree-spotted Blackberry Borer (Oherea tripunctata, 

 Fabr.) [".] The worms which you think cause what is 

 popularly termed "going blind" in the blo.ssoms of 

 the Itlaekberry, were dead and dry upon reaching us; 

 but one solitary moth had issued from a pupa in the 

 (pull, and though dam;iged was reailily rei'ognized as 

 the notorious Grapeberry Moth (Lolesiu hotrana) relcr" 

 red to on page 2T.'i of our last number. * 



Tlie Creen Hagr-molli — S'. B. Skaw, GlendaU, 

 ifo.— The pretty little moth with the abdomen and hind 

 wings lidvous, and with the thorax and front wings 

 delicate green, the latter bordered posteriorly with 

 brown , and having a patch of the same color at base, one- 

 third as long and one-half as wide as the wing itself, is 

 Vallochlommriais, Ueakirt. Its larva feeds on Cherry 

 and Apple, and is of a bright scarlet color, with four 

 dark blue-black lines along the back, and with prickly 

 yellow horns or tubercles, which have the power of 

 stinging. This moth was originally described by Mr. 

 T. Keakirt by the name of IJmacodes riridus, and sub- 

 seciueiitly as Parana riride. Dr. A. S. Packard, .Jr., 

 afterwards descri)7ed it as Ijallochlara rernata, erecting 

 the genus for this species alone. Ueakirt's specific name 

 has the priority, and our little moth must consequently be 

 known as Callochlora mridu. Synonyms enough for 

 one insect, you will exclaim ! Yes, but the synonyms 

 are not the worst of it; lor Jlr. Ueakirt has briefiy 

 described as the larva of oiu- moth a worm which he 

 found on Chestnut, and which has no relation to it, but 

 must belong to some other species. AVe know this to 

 be the casi^ from ourselves having bred s<!Veral speci- 

 mens of the moth IVoni the larva stale. 



'riic Antiopa Butterfly — .(. .S' Moss, Fredunia, 

 X. y. — The black prickly wornn which have been con- 

 gregating on your willows, are the larviu of the above- 

 named butterfiy (Vanessa antiopa, Linn.), otherwise 

 known, in England, as the " Camberwell Beauty." It 

 is indeed a beautifid insect, with its rich purple-brown 

 wings and their broad butf-yellow border. This insect 

 is at times quite abundant, at others (juite scari^e; and 

 the present year, according to ac<ounts, it is ipiite com- 

 mon in the Eastern .States, though rather scarce in the 

 West. 



Rosc-g:alI and Pupa of Archippus Butter- 

 tly—L. B. Ouslar, Logansport. laJ.—'Vhe beautiful 

 [I'ig. i«i. J chrysalis (Fig. 180) found suspended 



fei- to some oats, is that of the Archip- 

 pus Buttertly. The small, round, 

 yellowish galls on a rose leaf, cov- 

 ered with very short and blunt 

 spines, instead of great jiriekles, as 

 in that illuslratc'd at Figure 1!I2, 

 are, W(? have every reason to be- 

 lieve, unde.-cribed. Besides these 

 two galls, we know of two other 

 rose-leaf galls belonging to the same 

 group, the one perfectly smooth, 



reuii. lilack and ., ^, , . ',, . ^, 



g„id. the other havmg sometlung the 



form of a mangold-wurzel seed. .VII these galls agree 

 in having thin shells, arid containing a .single larva; 

 and they are doubtless all formi'd by gall-Hies belonging 

 to the genus li/wdiles. 



White Orubs in Strawberry Beds— </. II. Mil- 

 ler, Anna, Ills. — The grubs in your strawberry beds, 

 very mui;h of the appearance of the common White 

 (}rub, but only half as large as that species when full 

 grown, are, in all probability, the larva; of the Immacu- 

 late Chafer {Gycoaphala imt/viciilata , Oliv.), a pale, yel- 

 low beetle, not (luite one-half inch long, anil having a 

 dark head and two dusky points on the thorax. We 

 'have bred this species from similar grubs which occur- 

 red abundantly in a strawberry bed belonging to Sir. 

 G. H, Baker, of your county. 



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