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rience in the Adirondacks, and who stated that it was a 

 common species there. It is not on record from Ithaca, New 

 York, though that region has been very thoroughly 

 collected in. 



Po?nphopoea nnguicalaris, Leconte. Our present subject is 

 the largest of the Blister beetles (Meloidae) which we have 

 yet taken in the State. Mr. Schwartz, of the U. S. National 

 Museum, who is probably the best authority on beetles in the 

 country, tells me that it "is sometimes locally common in the 

 mountains." Surely it was plentiful at Blowing Rock on 

 June 26th, 1901. They were feeding on the leaves and fading 

 flowers of the mountain laurel in great numbers. Their 

 scratching among the thick leaves and twigs of the bushes 

 was plainly audible at a distance of a rod or more. Several 

 hundred were taken, and as many more might have been had 

 if desired. Only a few bushes were found to be infested by 

 them, others only a few hundred feet away being unmolested. 

 One party informed us that they had attacked the roses to 

 such an extent that it became necessary to spray them. We 

 also found them abundant on certain peach trees, where they 

 fed on the foliage, and noted the curious fact that they showed 

 a decided preference for leaves that had already been deformed 

 by the Leaf Curl. As many as eight or more were found on 

 a single curled leaf. This fact is also of interest as showing 

 one of the many means by which plant diseases may be 

 dispersed. 



