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was very injurious to the vine uear there, by eating the buds. As 
this flea-beetle has lately been found to be very destructive under cer- 
tain circumstances (see Insect Life, vol. v, pp. 334-342) to the peach, 
pear, plum, and apple. I take this occasion to add cherry to the list. It 
was observed last year, April 13, gnawing the undeveloped leaf buds 
of cherry saplings near Eosslyn, Va. A large number of young trees, 
chiefly pine and locust, had just been cleared away from this spot the 
previous spring. In this instance it is quite plain that the presence 
of the insects on the cherry was due to the absence of the favorite 
food tree of the species, the locust, in this locality. 
Xyleborus dispar .Fab., one of the " shot-borers,*' is known to injure 
the vine in Europe, and in this country doubtless has the same habit. 
I have beaten it from old vines near Washington early in April. 
Anthaxia quercata Fab. — The larva, which resembles those of Chrys- 
obothris. Dicerca. and other large Buprestidae, was taken at Eosslyn, 
Va.. from its pupal chamber in the old outer bark at the base of a liv- 
ing and evident!}' healthy wild grape-vine. At the time of its discov- 
ery, May 28, this larva was motionless, showing that transformation 
was about to begin. June 2 it became a pupa, and June 14 all parts 
save the elytra had become dark colored. On the following day the 
legs unfolded, but the elytra remained uncolored until the 16th, when 
the transformation was completed. The pupal stage, therefore, lasted 
fourteen days. Mr. C. H. Roberts has recorded the abundance of this 
species on grape-vine (Am. Ent., vol. v, p. 17) without, however, a con- 
jecture of this as a larval food-plant, but his discovery of twenty two 
pairs in copula conclusively proves this, as also what Dr. Horn in lus 
synopsis of the genus had surmised, that quercata and cyanella repre- 
sent sexes of a single species. I have previously recorded chestnut as 
a food-plant of this species, and there is no doubt that it breeds also in 
oak (loe. cit. pp. 31. 217). 
Lyctus opaculus Lee, one of the u powder-post" beetles I have pre- 
viously referred to as breeding in grape stems infested with Phyma- 
todes amwnus (Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. n, p. 393). There is also a 
divisional record of the occurrence of this species on grape. Speci- 
mens observed by me several years ago at Ithaca, X. Y., hibernated in 
the larval condition. The adults began issuing May 8. the species 
being present in all stages at that date. 
Hypothenemus dissimilis Zimm. — I have also noted the occurrence <»t' 
this species in grape stems (loc. cit.). 
Finally, should be added three species of CleridaB, all but the last of 
which have been reared from the vine by the writer. These are: 
Elasmocerus terminatus Say, recorded from dead vines (Am. Ent., 
vol. VI, p. 151), and by Dr. J. Hamilton (Can. Ent.. vol. win. p. 28 . 
Ghdriessa pilosa Foist., mentioned by Mr. A. 1>. Hopkins as occurring 
in dead vines. 
