
666 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
mological Society of Philadelphia, 1862. Compare especially what I say 
about the smaller larva which I had at that time, and which was found by 
Mr. Haldeman. Compare also the supplement to my article, confirming the 
‘ange short supplement is to be found in the report of the sta 
f the Society, held April 10, 1865. I thought that this Hert might 
be u to you, and draw your attention to those remarkable, 
FRA, ooet larvæ, which, until very recently, have ay escaped 
attention. — R. OSTEN SACKEN, New York. 
ILS INJURIOUS TO THE STRAWBERRY. — Herewith I send you some 
paes of the Pupilla varias of Say. There is nothing remarkable 
about the shells themselves, but I wish them to bear testimony to an 
this I do not know that the little mollusks now arraigned have ever 
been suspected as garden depredators. Mr. and Mrs. Chappellsmith of 
our town, both students of nature, and intelligent observers, found thei 
piiaorperey plants ‘dying rapidly, and on searching for the cause discov- 
ered these mollusks at work upon the stems and crowns of the pee 
rasping off the outer coating, and sucking their ied in such a manner 
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as em POU: many as forty upon on 
plant, and thinks they have killea several thousands ie the different 
ds. more abundant on the st: , he has found them ona 
variety of plants. Since attention has been called to the depredations of 
these minute mollusks, they have been found at work upon the straw- 
berry plants in all the gardens examined. For a number of years I have 
noticed me alternata Say, in our gardens, and they are becoming more 
an undant; but we have never detected them in doing any mis- 
chief. —E. T: Cox, New Harmony 
RAVAGES OF THE ALYPIA OCTOMACULATA.— That a man should sopa 
to raise his own Isabellas is nasabia and praiseworthy; and I see 
Feason vis such desire should exist exclusively in the breasts of our 
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m Sixteenth street, northward. A friend of mine residin Thirty- 
fo street, showed me, in March last, a very fine vine, which he calcu- 
lated would produce him sundry pounds of ve the 
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pride of his heart he invited me to “call along” occasionally, ana. feast 
my eyes on the „a Spree of the incipient bunc Thinkin, 
that August would be a good month for m my visit, I iain along,” PEN 
dering in my mind wheter my rea would, when the time of ripe grapes 
came, desire me to _— myself out of his abundance; or whether he in- 
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