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many plants. The latter has not previously been recorded, to the 
writer's knowledge, to occur on any particular plant, although it is not 
improbable that observing collectors are familiar with its occurrence 
on Cruciferae. Its life habits have apparently never been studied, so 
it is not known whether the larva is a leaf-miner 
or root-feeder. The beetle appears here at about 
the same time as the more injurious vittata, the 
first observed date being toward the end of April. 
Rgg deposit has been observed as late as August 4. 
The name above used is suggested for the species. 
This flea-beetle (fig. 18) resembles vittata but 
averages slightl} 7 larger, and each elytron is orna- 
mented with two large irregularly oval yellow 
spots, one humeral, the other subapical. The 
basal 5 joints of the antennae are paler than the 
remainder and the legs are more or less rufo- 
tuiatn: beetle— highly testaceous. The above characters will serve to 
magnified (original). distinguisn it from individuals of vittdta ill which 
the vitta is broken near the middle. 
The distribution accorded by Horn (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. XVI, 
1899, p. 300) is from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. The writer has 
a series from Ithaca, N. Y., and these localities, together with those 
from the Hubbard and Schwarz and other collections in the National 
Museum and a few recorded localities, give the following list: 
Lancaster, New York, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Camden, Anglesea, Orange Mountains, Fort 
Lee, Hudson County, and elsewhere in New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Marshall Hall, 
Md. ; Washington and Tennallytown, D. C. ; Rosslyn and St. Elmo, Va. ; Grand 
Ledge, Mich.; Marietta, Ohio; Berkeley Springs, W. Ya. ; central Missouri; Iowa; 
South Carolina; and Columbus, Tex. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON SOME CABBAGE INSECTS. 
The Cabbage Curculio (Ceutorhynchus rapse Gyll.). — This species, an 
account of which was published in Bulletin 23 (n. s., pp. 39-50), made 
its appearance in still greater numbers in 1900 than in the previous 
year, and was found in some localities in abundance where it was 
scarceh T seen on previous occasions. 
At Cabin John, Md., all of the cabbage plants examined showed 
attack by this beetle, one or more individuals being always to be 
found on each plant. The beetles confined their feeding to the edges 
of the leaves, as previously noticed. Kale was attacked in about the 
same proportion, the beetles attacking the pods. Attack was confined 
to the individuals of the new generation, but the extent of injury 
could not be estimated. Shepherd's purse (Bursa hursa-pastoris) was 
found on different occasions to harbor the beetles, and it seems prob- 
able that this plant and kale serve as food for the larvae as well as for 
the beetles. 
