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of each species. EFumenes fraterna, which attaches its single, large, 
thin-walled cell of mud to the stems of plants, is, according to 
Dr. T. W. Harris, known to store it with canker-worm: ee 
the mud+dauber, is now building its earthen mare Spens as them ọ 
a ae and sto lls. 
e Saw-ilies (retina etc., abound in our gardens this month. 
ee Selandria vitis attacks the vine, while Selandria rose, the Rose- 
slug, injures the rose. The disgusting Pear Slug-worm (5S. cerasi), 
often live twenty to thirty on a leaf, eating the parenchyma, or softer 
tissues, leaving the blighted leaf. The leaves should be sprinkled 
it mixture of whale-oil soap and water, in the proportion of two 
pounds of soap to fifteen gallons of water. 
Sg ee g the anaien ene aoii in the south, and M. Har- 
jin pon rth, is sometime A second brood of Colias 
pea ce, oc Sonne tia butterfly appears, a Pieris 
oleracea visits turnip-patches. It lays its eggs in June on the leaves, 
and the full-grown, dark green, hairy larva may be found in August. 
second brood of the larva of Chrysophanus Americanus may be found 
on the sorrel. 
The larvæ of Pyrrarctia isabella hatch out the first week in July, and 
the snuff-colored moth enters our windows at night, in company with 
a host of night-flying moths. These large moths, many of which are 
injurious to crops, are commonly thought to feed on clothes and car- 
Fig. 2. p true Fig. 3 
ets. The carpet and clothes 
oths minute species, W. 
flutter noiselessly about rt- 
men narrow, feathery wings 
and almost the slightest touch kills . 
them. 
Among Beetles, the various borers 
such as the Says or apple-tree deen, are now 
pairing, and fly in the hot sun about trees. Nearly 
each tree has its ae enemy, which drives its 
galleries into the trunk and branch- Fig. 4. 
es of the tree. Among the Tiger 
Beetles abiau sandy places, 
ndela generosa (Fig. orl 
2) a and the elena hirticollis are a bial common. The eloni 
lary. p d-panka : 
‘Then 1 Lady B Ili tata (Fig. 3, with pupa) 
Sone of a largo group of beetles, most beneficial from their habit of 
