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Rose-chafer.— During the last week of May, 1896, the rose-chafer 

 (lig. 8) was present in such numbers that 100 individuals were counted 

 on one rosebush and three times that number on an adjacent blossom- 



Fig. 8.— Rose-chafer (after Riley; loaned by the Division of Entomology). 



ing elder. Of 62 birds collected during this outbreak, onlj- 3—2 king- 

 birds and a cardinal— had destroyed rose-chafers. This result was not 

 expected, because May -flies and other tempting insects were not com- 



FlG. 



-Kingbird. 



mon then, and because rose-chafers have no disagreeable secretions 

 like those of potato-beetles and the two diabroticas, but are relatives 

 of the May-beetle and the dung-beetles, which are highly relished by 



