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Ichnea laticomis Say, reared from the vine by Mr. W. Juelicli (Bull. 
Bklyn. Ent. Soc, vol. in, p. 140). These species prey on ceranibycid 
iiud other borers and are, therefore, to a certain extent beneficial. 
Thus much from personal observation. The following notes have 
been prepared from data gleaned mainly from published notices and 
from the divisional record books and correspondence. 
Of the dozen species of vine-chafers of the genus Anomala, two 
species, A. lucicola and A. marginata, are mentioned in Mr. Bruner's list 
of grape insects. At least two others, viz, A. undulata Mels. and 
A. minuta Burm., are destructive to the vine. 
The species described and figured by Harris (Ins. Inj. to Yeg., p. 34) 
as probably A. variant (a synonym of undulata) is evidently not this 
species, but lucicola. In LeBaron's Fourth Eeport (p. 89) varians is 
described and referred to as " the species so common on grape vines in 
the West." May 14, 1888, we received specimens of undulata from a 
correspondent at Greenville, S. C, with the report that they were injur- 
ing grape, and April 7, 1879, from Dr. Charles Mohr, who stated that 
they were injuring blossoms of grape, apple, and pear at Grand Bay, Ala. 
A. minuta Burm. is mentioned in volume I of Insect Life (p. 220) 
as injurious in Louisiana vineyards. June 14 of the present year 
Mr. A. N. Caudell sent specimens from the experiment station at Still- 
water, Okla., with the statement that they were ravaging grape, doing 
much damage by skeletonising the foliage. 
A. binotata Gyll. has been included in a list of grape species by 
Thomas ( Sixth, Bept. St. Ent. 111., p. 105), but on what authority I do 
not know. 
Hoplia callipyge Lec. — Specimens of this scarabseid were received 
during May, 1893, from two correspondents in Fresno Couuty, Califor- 
nia, the first reporting that they were found on roses and afterwards in 
his vineyard, as many as a hundred on a single vine; the second that 
they were doing great damage to the Muscat grape (see Insect Life, 
vol. V, p. 343). In the Pacific Bural Press of May 17, 1890, R. sackenii 
Lec. is mentioned as injurious to the grape in the same district. 
Rliltica carinata Germ. — Mr. D. W. Coquillett furnished us some time 
ago with specimens of this flea-beetle from Los Angeles, CaL, with 
grape leaves injured by them, and mention of this species as an enemy 
of the grape has been made by Dr. G. H. Horn in his synopsis of the 
Halticini (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. xvi, p. 223). 
Gastroidea formosa Say is reported in the first volume of this jour- 
nal (p. 385) as a vineyard pest in Arizona. It is destructive also to the 
canaigre [Rumcx hymenoscpalus). An account of what'is undoubtedly 
the same insect is given in Bulletin Fo. 9 of the Arizona Agricultural 
Experiment Station, the species receiving mention as the canaigre 
beetle {Gastroidea ccesia Lec). The American representatives of the 
genus Gastroidea are as yet imperfectly known, but formosa, according 
to Dr. J. Hamilton, is an introduced species, synonymous with the 
European viridula Deg. 
