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TWO MORE IMPORTANT VE I) ALIAS. 
We have recently received from Mr. A. Aleock, superintendent of 
tlie Indian Museum at Calcutta, .specimens of Vedalia fumida, var. rosei- 
pennis Muls., which has appeared in considerable numbers during the 
present season and is feeding on Icerya cegyptiacum on ornamental 
plants in the compound of the Museum. Whatever bearing this fact, 
and the rearing of an internal parasite of this Egyptian Icerya by Mr. 
Cotes last year, as recorded in Insect Life, may have on the supposi- 
tion that India is the original home of this insect, the fact remains that 
the new Indian Yedalia will be an important insect to import into the 
affected gardens of Alexandria. Egypt, where I. cegyptiacum has been 
doing so much damage. 
Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend. in the course of a recent journey to Mexico 
under a commission from this Department, discovered Yedalia sieboldii 
feeding upon Icerya purchasi. We have, therefore, a Vedalia at hand 
in case I. purchasi should reappear in dangerous numbers in California 
and the original stock of V. cardinalis die out. We have no knowledge 
of the life- history of the Mexican species, and it may prove to be a 
slower breeder than the famous V. cardinalis. 
DAMAGE BY THE BROWN SAP-CHAFER. 
An unusual number of complaints were received during the past 
season, from correspondents of this Division, of injuries by a common 
light grayish-brown beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, known 
as Euphoria inda Linn., and generally referred to in works on economic 
entomology as the Indian Cetonia. 
August 31. specimens were received from Pullman. 111., where the 
beetle was reported to be feeding on the sap flowing from wounds 
made by borers in elm and ash trees, also from a correspondent at 
Hickory Hill. Pa., who wrote that it seemed to be very destructive to 
green corn, by eating the kernels off the cob. September 1 it was 
mailed to us from Dr. E. H. Jenkins, vice-director of the Connecticut 
Agricultural Experiment Station, with the information that the insect 
was damaging corn extensively at Westport, Conn. September 4 it 
was received through the editor of the Xew England Homestead, 
who reported the insect to be attacking tomatoes at Sterliug, Mass. 
Se T cember 18 it was received from Greenwich, Conn., where the insect 
w ts found on sap exuding from oak trees. In the last instance, as in 
he first, our correspondent was laboring under the impression that 
the beetles had injured the trees, and was of the opinion that the 
insects, of which he states he had picked off hundreds from five oak 
trees, " sting'" the bark, causing the sap to flow. 
In the November number of Gardening (pp. 55-56) two similar cases 
are mentioned by correspondents in White Plains. N. V.. and Detroit. 
Mich. The first of these found the insects on a pear tree which was 
