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beetles—that was troublesome on cabbage and other cruciferous crops 
in his vicinity. At our request he sent specimens of the insect, which 
proved to be also Phyllotreta pusilla, with the statement that only a 
single grower in his neighborhood had saved any cabbage, all others 
having given up the fight against this flea beetle. In addition to cab- 
bage this species was injurious to radish, horseradish, and turnip, and 
was stated also to injure peas. On the last-mentioned plant they ate 
the lower leaves or lower part of the stalk. Out of a thousand good 
cabbage plants our correspondent saved only a hundred. The beetles 
seemed to prefer the younger plants, but thrive also upon the older 
ones. <A neighbor of our correspondent reported that he had not raised 
a turnip for seven years on account of this insect. The species was 
stated to prevail in injurious abundance throughout the region of the 
Black Hills. The beetles were first noticed the last week of June, and 
- seemed to disappear somewhat toward the end of July. 
THE WINDROW REMEDY FOR BLISTER BEETLES. 
Correspondence of this Division and readers of Insect Life will 
remember that we have often recommended as a remedy against blister 
beetles to drive them into windrows of hay, straw, or other light mate- 
rial and then destroy them by setting the material on fire. Very 
recently somebody doubted the value of this expedient; so, on the next 
occasion of reported blister beetle damage in a locality where these 
insects occurred in great abundance, we requested information concern- 
ing the value of this remedy, which we had recommended in a letter of 
May 22. Our correspondent, Mr. E. W. King, of Lostprong, Tex., was 
troubled with Epicauta lemniscata, which was very destructive to beets, 
potatoes, cabbage, and corn upon his place, but it was also very abun- 
dant on “careless weed,” this latter habit being convenient for the 
experiment. Under date of June 3, Mr. King writes as follows: 
‘““We took some old hay out of the barn, made windrows about 18 
inches high, 2 feet wide, and 40 feet long and commenced to ‘switch’ them 
into the loose hay. A stiff breeze was blowing and we burned millions, 
as they drive easily. Of course we did not kill all, but, strange to say, 
they have entirely disappeared from this ranch.” 
WHITE GRUBS OF ALLORHINA NITIDA INVADING A CELLAR, 
August 19 Hon. William P. Miller, of Harrisburg, Pa., sent to this 
office a box of specimens containing the larve and an imago of the 
green June beetle, Allorhina nitida, with the information that the 
larvee which were infesting the grass in the lawn about his house had 
formed the disagreeable habit of burrowing through tiny crevices in 
the foundations of the walls and entering the cellar, where they mean- 
dered around on the cemented floor, causing great annoyance. The 
worm did no damage in the cellar, but was considered a great nuisance. 
Our correspondent writes that as many as 40 of these grubs were 
caught in twenty-four hours in the cellar. 
