574 General Notes. [July, 
successful agriculture in the more arable portions. Several spe- 
cies seem to be thus troublesome, and until they are better known 
and the habits of the different species studied, it will be impossi- 
ble to suggest a rational mode of warfare against them. 
Larv#& oF CoLeoprera.—Professor F. G. Schaupp continues, 
in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, his de- 
scriptions of larve of Coleoptera. In No. 10, Vol. 111, of said 
Bulletin, he gives a plate with illustrations representing the larve 
of Platynus extensicollis, Chlenius leucoscelis, Pterostichus lucu- 
blandus, P. mutus and Staphylinus vulpinus. 
CoveRING OF EGG-PUNCTURE MISTAKEN FOR DorTHESIA.—In 
hastily looking over the collection of the late Dr. Fitch recently, 
we were somewhat amused to recognize the white and ribbed 
waxy material covering the egg-punctures of Enchophyllum bino- 
tatum \abeled as Dorthesia viburni and D. celasiri. This covering 
does bear a superficial resemblance to the exudations of Dorthe- 
sia, though a glance suffices to show that it has no structure con- 
nected with it. We cannot find that any such species of Dor- 
thesia were described by Fitch, though Glover refers to his Y. 
celastri as found on Celastrus (Agricultural Report, 1876, p. 45): 
Mr. Lintner, the present State entomologist of New York, thinks 
that the species may possibly have been published in fugitive 
articles in the Country Gentleman, but we have no means of ascer- 
taining the facts. 
Mr. H. Keenan, of Quaker City, Ohio, sends us the saw-fly, 
Dolerus unicolor (Beauv.), the 2 of which is described as arvensis 
by Say, with a statement of its injuries to the fruit buds of pear 
trees by eating holes therein, the saw-flies occurring in vast num- 
pee around the trees. This is the first case that has come to our 
' Gentleman. Mr. J. Q. Adams, of Watertown, N. Y., writes to us 
under date of May 24th, as follows: 
“Many hill pastures hereabouts are being ruined by what is called the army worm 
and while I cannot doubt but that it is pee by unt, cta from its work, still I wish 
confirmation of the fact by an authority. My search in the fields has developed on ¥ 
a black headed, black spotted, smoky colored, naked worm that builds a nidus 0 
