being made smooth by a soit of gum. j 
Tn ° these cells they soon change to pup*, from which a second 
1 Z^nf flips is produced by the end of June and beginning of July., 
it fli the intoence of July weather, the whole process of egg ; 
Under the influence ?,, JL a ted and the second brood of worms, 
depositing, etc., is iap y P ’ > art 0 f August, and form 
following, when they become pupal and flies again, as relate . 
Mr Saunders’ observations do not quite agree with the above ac-, 
b c i fnnnrl ■Hip larvte some partly and some fully giowrU 
Olathe 3th of July! at London,’Ontario, these specimens commencing: 
to enter the earth July 2 l>. . . 0 . , ! 
Mr Oalusha Secretary of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, re, 
says ^that'lie failed to Ind any second brood mJuly, «•£>£•£ 
closelyTand p^fn" July, conceatfthe £S 
oT'theTeaLworms Two yeaif later, however, Mr. Galusha is quote, 
of Morris informs me he has carefully watched for them and t 
b s knowledge they have not made their appearance twice the sam 
season Mr 8 Biley has undoubtedly studied them farther south, an 
similar to other insects they may prove double-brooded where t 
seasons are longer.” . , , 
In the Transactions of the Iowa State Horticultural Society ft 
1882, Miss Alice' B. Walton records the absence of a second broo 
at Muscatine. . , 
These are the only published observations on the life^history ■ 
Q-necies which I have been able to find, and it is mucn to 
regretted that the interesting and important question °f the numbj 
of broods must be left in some uncertainty. The lan a nas - 
too rare in my vicinity of late years to enable me to throw any adc 
“ at w& Eme°rr indEidua 
were taken by sweeping at Normal. 
^Entomologists are too apt to forget that the aUon^aa^velf^and'that^rrors are 
of observations only, but of inferences ftom o . from 1 mistakes of observation. 
more likely to arise from mistakes i of.^erence t^Jrom^^ which the inf ere n< 
this account it is best, whenever Possible, t( V. u ™ Controversy arising, the difficulty rc 
s,udy of ,he whole ™ bieot - de no ""- 
