attraction for moths; we triedit this eve- 
ning, and got Calocampa cineritia, and 
other things. 
April 7. The first rain of the year fell. 
April 15. The first spring-emerging 
butterflies seen (Pieris),also saw a Grapta. 
The small gentian, Gentiana humilis, in 
flower. 
April 22. The willows are in bloom. 
April 23. Saw a milkweed butterfly, 
Danais plexippus. 
April 24. Kinni-kinnick (Arctostaphy- 
los uva-ursi) in bloom. 
April 25. Clematis douglasii, Euphor- 
bia montana and Lencocrinum montan- 
um in flower. 
April 28. Snow about a foot this morn- 
ing, but rapidly melting. This was an 
unusually late fall to be so deep. 
May 2. Berberis and Quaking-asp in 
flower. 
May 16. Rose-fly (Rhodites tubercu- 
lator) emerging from the galls. Found 
a mushroom. 
May 22. Found a morel (morchella 
esculenta) by Swift creek. This fungus 
is edible, and is much esteemed in parts 
of Europe. 
A FRUIT-EATING BEETLE. 
Last August, not very far from Beu- 
lah, in Pueblo county, Mrs. M. E. Cusack 
found two beetles feasting on the flower 
head of a thistle, and kindly gave us the 
specimens. They belong to the family 
of rose beetles, and live mostly on flow- 
ers, and are fond of all sweet things. In 
shape, they are broad and rounded, and 
often they are of most brilliant colors. 
The species we now write of is dull in 
appearance, but if examined closely is 
not without beauty, the wing cases be- 
ing dull brownish yellow on the back, 
with numerous small black spots, 
producing a marbled appearance. The 
thorax is beautifully smooth, being cov- 
ered with short dull yellowish hairs. Its 
name is Euryomia inda. Often this bee- 
tle is injurious to fruits, as stated by 
Mr. W. Saunders, who says: “They at- 
tack our finest and most luscious fruits, 
eating their way into the richest ripen- 
ing pears and burrowing into the finest 
peaches so deeply that only the tips of 
their bodies are visible, and in this way 
spoiling the fruit and inducing rapid de- 
cay. They also attack grapes and other 
sweet fruits.” We have found a second 
kind of rose-beetle, called Trichius piger 
on a wild rose by Swift creek, in Custer 
county, but this does not do any damage. 
NOTES. 
In our 7th report we described the 
pine-boring beetle Chalcophora, but 
stated that we had not met with the 
larvae. On the 25th of last month, how- 
ever, we found one of these grubs in a 
burrow in a pitch-pine stump. It is dull 
ochre in color, and 46 millimetres long. 
Apropos of A. G. Tansley’s article on 
the colors of leaves and flowers in the 
last issue of “Science Gossip,” Miss A. S. 
Fenn, of Isleworth, England, sends us 
the following interesting observations: 
“I have often meant to ask you whether 
you have ever noticed that in g6oseber- 
ry bushes which bear yellow gooseber- 
ries, the leaves turn yellow in autumn, 
and in those which bear red berries, the 
