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infested had been attacked by the second brood, and the larvae were 

 still present " when the examination was made. 



Possibly the second brood may have been unusually abundant. The 

 trees had only received the June sprayings. 



Dynastes Tityus {Linii.) 

 As a Fruit-Eater. 



In the notices of this insect — the Rhinoceras beetle, or the Spotted 

 Horn-bug, as it is popularly called — in the oth and 7th Reports of this 

 series, the ash was given as the food of the beetle — either the tender 

 leaves of young shoots, the alburnum or sap-wood of the limbs from 

 which the bark has been planed, or the sap which it has caused to flow. 

 It has never been recorded as injuring fruits. 



An example of the beetle — a male — was received October 4th of 

 the present year (an unusually late period for it) from Mr. F. H. 

 Emmord, of Magnolia, Md., with the memorandum, " came off a ripe 

 pear." As its occurrence on the pear might have been simply accidental,, 

 it was inclosed in a box with a ripe seckel to see if it would feed upon 

 it. The day f ollowinsj it was found with its head and thorax buried in 

 the pear. In the meantime, Mr. Enimond had been written to, asking 

 him if the insect had eaten into the pear from which it had been taken, 

 and if any instances of its feeding on fruit had been observed by him^ 

 The answer returned, was the following: 



" I found the spotted horn-bug in a soft, ripe, seckel pear which he 

 had eaten into quite to the core. I had laid the pear in a crotch of the 

 tree the day before. I put him in a paper box with a piece of the same 

 pear which he ate. Where the juice of the pear had softened the 

 paper box he ate through it." 



As the beetle also in like manner ate through the saturated bottom 

 of the box in which he was confined in my office, it is probable that 

 the sweet juice of the fruit is the chief attraction, and that fruit ordi- 

 narily would not be attacked by it unless its surface had been broken,, 

 permitting of the escape of its juices. 



Crioceris asparagi (Linn.). 



The Asparagus Beetle. 



In the notice of this insect in the First Report on the 'Insects of 

 JSfevj York, 188*2 (pp. 239-246), it was stated, that in the State of New 

 York "we only hear of its serious injuries from Long Island and tlie 

 vicinity of New York city." It might have been added, that it was 

 not known to occur elsewhere in the State. 



