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capable of doing serious injury, as will be seen from the following 
letter of Professor Geo. H. Stone, Colorado Springs, Col., dated 
Aug. 26th, and accompanied by numerous specimens of Epz/achna 
corrupta : 
“ By this mail I send you a tin box containing larvæ and per- 
fect beetles which promise to have almost as unenviable a reputa- 
tion as Doryphora ro-lineata. From the egg to the grave they are 
voracious: They are good judges of food. With me they have 
confined their attacks to black wax beans, and the enclosed leaves 
appeared in my garden a few days ago. Within that time they 
have eaten almost every leaf on a good-sized patch of wax beans, 
and to-day I have made arrangements to have them all picked by 
hand so they shall not have a chance to hibernate.” 
' SPREAD OF THE TWELVE-PUNCTURED ASPARAGUS BEETLE.—Mr. 
B € larva and pupa of this beetle so destructive to our insect col- 
ymenoptera that store their cells with spiders or other insects. 
T HYLLOXERA IN CALIFORNIA.— [In a report made by Mr. John H. 
etary of the Viticultural Commission of California, 
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