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off; the wing-cases are reddish-brown, with two oblique black spots 
on the upper, and two longitudinal black ones enclosing a yellowish 
mark on their lower parts ; the abdomen protrudes the twentieth part 
of an inch beyond the wing-cases, and is of a yellowish color ; the 
fore-legs are spiny and of a brown color ; the hind-legs are very long, 
brown, the ends of the tibiae and tarsi black. 
From what has been seen of the habits of this insect, and its com- 
parative scarcity, I should not regard it as injurious to the crop, and 
therefore, I would class it amongst those insects frequenting the cot- 
ton but not injurious to it. 
TWELVE-SPOTTED GALEREUCA. 
{Galereuca duodecimpundata.) 
A small leaf-beetle (PI. VIII. fig. 1) is often found in the young 
flowers of the cotton, where it gnaws holes in the petals. This insect 
is about three-tenths of an inch in length ; the head is black ; the 
thorax orange-green ; the wing-cases greenish-yellow, with six black 
spots on each ; the upper part of the thighs is green, and the rest 
of the leg dark-colored, or nearly black. 
- Among the remedies suggested for destroying the striped eucumher- 
beetle, {Galereuca vittata,) Dr. B. S. Barton, of Pennsylvania, recom- 
mends “sprinkling the vines with a mixture of red pepper and to- 
bacco.” Ground plaster and charcoal dust have also been recom- 
mended, as well as watering the vines with a solution of an ounce of 
glauber salts in a quart of common water, or tobacco water. An 
infusion of liops, elder, or walnut leaves is said to be very useful ; as, 
likewise, sifting powdered soot upon the plants when they are wet 
with the morning dew. Others have advised sulphur and Scotch 
snuff to be applied in the same way. 
Dr. Barton likewise states that, “as these insects fly by night, as 
well as by day, and are attracted by lights, burning splinters of pine 
knots, or of staves of tar-barrels, stuck in the ground during the 
night, around the plants, have been found useful in destroying these 
beetles.” Similar remedies might possibly apply to the twelve-spotted 
galereuca. 
As these insects are not sufficiently numerous to do any harm to 
the cotton-crop, these remedies are merely mentioned as applying to 
the cucumher-beetle, or any other pests of the garden or fields, of 
similar habits. 
SPAN-WORMS, OR LOOPERS 
(GeometrcE?) 
Among the numerous insects which injure the flowers of the cotton- 
plant may be found several caterpillars, many of which are of the 
kind termed “mopers,” or “span-worms,” from their peculiar mode 
of locomotion. 
