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Xylotrechus nauticus—Found several larve of this species in a dead 
and dry stump of Quercus agrifolia December 9, 1889; they bore oval 
holes in the wood, the holes extending from the interior of the stump 
direct to the surface and continuing nearly through the bark. In some 
of these burrows I found three dead beetles of X. nauticus. A living 
beetle was in this box July 17, 1890. 
Ipochus fasciatus.—Found four larve October 10 in dead and dry 
apple twigs. - When extended the body is a trifle thicker at each end 
than in the middle. August 2 one was still a larva, and. in one of the 
burrows I found a dead beetle. Found several adults of this species 
beneath projecting bark on apple tree June 4. 
Cassida texana.—Found many larve and five beetles on Solanum 
xanti May 12. Beetles issued May 29. 
Phleodes diabolicus.—Found three larve in rotten willow stumps 
February 28. Found one inrotten sycamore log March 24. September 
8 found several of these larve in a rotten willow stump, and in the same 
stump I found a pupa, evidently of this species, and a beetle still in its 
cell in the rotten wood. 
Celocnemis californicus.—Three larvee were taken, May 20, in a rotten 
sycamore stump. One pupated July 3 and the beetle issued July 18. 
EARLY PUBLISHED REFERENCES TO SOME OF OUR INJURIOUS 
INSECTS. 
By F. M. WEBSTER. 
It was in the legislature of one of the western States, I believe, that, 
in a speech opposing a certain measure, a member stated that we had 
no destructive insects until the advent of entomologists, and, now, the 
more entomologists the more bugs and the greater the damage. Among 
- the unentomological an insect is new or old according as it has hap- 
pened to be observed, and while no one would for a moment concur in 
the opinion of the statesman, as above expressed, nevertheless even the 
entomologist is sometimes puzzled to determine whether or not he is 
dealing with a new subject or an old one, and often, too, after he has 
carefully followed his new depredator through its entire cycle, at the 
expense of weeks of study, and publishes his results, ere the ink of the 
printer is dry, in some old dusty volume, where he least expects it, he 
will find that as much or even more had been learned years before. 
Then, too, the early history of some of our best known species is en- 
veloped in obscurity, and itis probable that they were destructive in 
the fields of the aborigines long before the advent of the white man. John 
Josselyn, who styled himself “‘ gentleman,” and made a voyage to New 
England in 1638~39, and again in 1663, remaining until 1671, tells us in 
arecord of his voyages that, in the cornfields of the natives, ‘there is a 
