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which every one who has traveled in Europe, and has paid any 
attention to insects, will doubtless have met with under stones, 
sticks, etc., in pastures and meadows. Mr. L. D. Snook of Bar- 
rington, Yates Co., N. Y., sent us during the latter part of July 
a number of specimens of this beetle, with the statement that it 
greatly injures clover on his farm. Further particulars as to the 
nature of the damage have not yet been received. It is worthy 
of remark, that this imported enemy to clover made its first 
appearance in the same county from which, three years ago, we 
first reported another European beetle affecting the same plant, 
viz., the clover root-borer (/ylesinus trifolui Mill). 
ANOTHER Enemy oF THE Rice Prant.—To the enemies of 
the rice plant already mentioned and discussed by us elsewhere, 
viz., Chalepus trachypygus and Lissorhoptus simplex, we have now 
to add a third one, and this time of the Order Lepidoptera. It is 
the larva of Laphygma frugiperda, well-known to be destructive 
to most grasses and grains. Rice suffered greatly from it this 
summer in Georgia, and we determined the species from speci- 
mens sent us by Mr. W. Barnwell, of Savannah. 
CANKER Worms.—One of the next striking exampies of de- 
vastation by the spring canker worm (Paleacrita vernata) which 
as €ver come to our knowledge, is that to the orchards of Mr. 
W. Robeson, of Taswell Co., Ill., which were this year so 
seriously affected as to be nearly killed and ruined. 
LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL Notes.\—_¢geria acerni Clem. (Rep. VI, 
Pp. 110).—Mr. D. S. Kellicott has an interesting article in the Can- 
_adian Entomologist for January, 1881, on the A®gerians inhabiting 
the vicinity of Buffalo, N. Y., in which he states that the chrysalis 
of this species in his locality, does not agree with my description 
as “unarmed,” if that description refers to the dorso-abdomin 
te A re-examination of my specimens shows that my state- 
ment applies to the absence of these teeth. It is, however, possi- 
ble that there is some variation in’ this regard, and that the east- 
mm specimens from the hard maple differ from the western ones 
from the soft maple in having the teeth, as indicated by Mr. 
ellicott, 
fy phantria textor Harr. (Rep. 111, 130)—There is no doubt in 
my mind, from frequent breeding of specimens, that this is syn- 
Onymous with cwnea Drury, and punctata Fitch, which are but 
varieties, Drury’s name having priority. . 
: Caltimor pia Talvicasts pais (Rep. ul, I 32).—Grote and Rob- 
son give the synonymy of this species in their “ List of Lepi- 
doptera of N. A.,” etc., Zecontei Boisd., having priority. The late 
Jacob Boll bred all the forms from larve feeding on the same 
plant, , 
* From advance sheets of Bulletin v1, U.S. Entomological Commission, by C. V. 
ee being a general index and supplement to the nine Reports on the Insects of 
Missouri, ‘ 
