80 BULLETIN NO. 4, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY.. 



bugs made their appearance in countless numbers, but I caught them 

 in a cloth ; but this year the vines are too large, and I tried several 

 remedies and none will move them. Please inform me as soon as possi- 

 ble if you know of anything, and greatly benefit, yours, respectfully. — 

 [Joseph A. Harper, Blaclcshear, Ga., May 10, 1883. 



[The beetle injuring the grape-vines proved to be the Grape-vine Colas- 

 pis (Colaspis briumea Fabr.), treated in our Third Missouri Report, p. 81. 

 The larvse feed on the roots of plants, and often do considerable dam- 

 age to strawberry plants. The best remedies found are in jarring them 

 into sheets saturated with kerosene, and in spraying the vines with a 

 Paris green or London purple solution in the proportion of 2 ounces of 

 the poison to 10 gallons of water, thoroughly stirred.] 



I have a vineyard of about 800 plants, of twenty or twenty-five differ- 

 ent home varieties. It is in its fourth year on the ground, and up to the 

 12th ultimo looked perfectly beautiful and of a luxuriant growth, whilst 

 the vines were almost all loaded with fruit of excellent form and size. 

 An insect has since made its appearance in myriads and myriads, and 

 perforated the leaves in such a way as to cause their becoming dry and 

 falling. It attacked almost all varieties, less in some way the Concord, 

 although the leaves are fearfully damaged. The grapes, thus far, lost 

 none of their vigor, owing perhaps to wet weather, which, unfortunately, 

 troubles us for all other crops very much. 



In a separate parcel I send you some insects of the above. Please 

 examine them, and let me know their history, and if there is any chance 

 of a remedy for their destruction before they destroy our crop. Last 

 year, too, we were troubled by the same pests, but to a smaller degree. 

 If my statement is any way obscure, please call it to my attention that 

 I may furnish you with further information. Our Scuppernongs are 

 not damaged, but many weeds with large leaves, such as docks, are per- 

 fectly perforated, the same as our grape-vines. — [C. Menelas, Brook- 

 haven, Miss., July 6, 1883. 



[This was same insect and the same advice was sent.] 



Strawberry Fruit Beetles. 



Inclosed you will find some insects which have proved very destruc- 

 tive to my strawberries. I have only 400 plants in my garden, and 

 last year should have been their best bearing year; but the crop was 

 entirely destroyed by these insects. They came as the berries commenced 

 turning, and we had very few to ripen, as they ate small holes in them, 

 and then the whole berry became soft. I salted the vines when they 

 were done beariug last year, thinking it might kill the bugs for this 

 year. And I thought I had succeeded, as we gathered a splendid crop 



