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GRAPE. LEAVES. 
The Eumolpus Vitis which often sadly devours the vine leaves 
in southern Europe, Kirby states to be common in New-York and 
Canada; but I think this is a mistake. 
The Rose-bug, No. 50, is one of the greatest pests to the vine, 
in neighborhoods where it abounds. 
129. Light-loving Anomala, Anomala lucicola, Fab. (Coleoptera. Melo- 
lonthidse.) 
The fore part of July beetles resembling in their appearance 
the May-beetle, No. 76, but of a much smaller size, being only 
about 0.35 long, become common on both wild and cultivated 
grape vines, feeding upon the leaves. From their colors and 
marks they would appear quite plainly to be of at least four very 
distinct species, and Fabricius has named and described three of 
them as such. But as they are always found associated together, 
and similar insects in Europe vary similarly in their colors, it is 
probable they are as authors have supposed, mere varieties of one 
species. They may be distinguished as follows : 
1. The gloomy Anomala (A. mcerens, Fab.,) of a pale dull yel¬ 
low color, the thorax sometimes reddish, and with the knob of 
the antennae and tne middle of the breast black. 
2. The spotted neck ( maculicollis ,) like the preceding, but 
with a black stripe or large spot on each side of the middle of the 
thorax, and often the hind part of the head and the outer side of 
the wing covers also black. 
3. The light-loving ( lucicola , Fab.,) pale dull yellow with the 
thorax black except on each side and on the middle of its hind 
edge, the hind part of the head, the scutel and under side of the 
body being also black, with the abdomen brown or sometimes dull 
yellowish. 
4. The black ( atrata , Fab.,) black throughout, the abdomen 
commonly tinged slightly with pale. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 29. 
1*0. Spotted Pelidnota, Pelidnota punctata, Linn. (Coleoptera. Sea- 
rabid®.) [Plate ii, fig, 6.] 
A large broad oval beetle of a pale brownish yellow' color, 
With a black dot on each side of the thorax and three others along 
the outer side of each wing cover, as represented in the figure on 
