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learned from him that it was the species origi- 
ly described by Say as lulus annulatus, but referred by Cone to 
genus Cambala.* During this same month, Prof. French of 
rbondale, reported to the “Prairie Farmer” the occurrence of what 
3 probably the same species of milJipede in an old held of straw- 
ries m Car bon dale, Jackson county, where it was doing consid- 
b e ^Pury, attacking, however, according to his observations only 
over-ripe and softened fruit. ’ y 
n the “Western Rural” for December 22d, Dr. E. L. Sturfevant 
ector of the New York State Experiment Station, is said to have 
!?ii l n T r V if , theSe ln8e0tS as oocurr 'ng under decaving straw! 
eath a smgle^'rr'y" ^ iudividuals be “§' 
'be earliest American observations of this form of injury to the 
iwberry with which I am acquainted, were recorded in the second 
lme ot the American Entomologist, page 59, in the number f-r 
•ember, 1869; where Mr B. D. Walsh, then State Entomologist 
linois, repoiied having found, during the preceding summer two 
met thousand-legged worms, lulus and Polydesmus, burrowino- 
i|strawberries near Rock Island, Illinois, but only in very small 
ibers. A different injury to the plant was described bv the 
writer on page 34 of the Practical Entomologist for December 
>. A correspondent writing from New York incloses to Mr’ 
sh a specimen of the genus Julus with the following statement 
terning its injuries to vegetation: 
This destructive worm has possession of the length and breadth 
jy garden, and of many others in the vicinity. In the daytime 
out of sight, inhabiting the ground, but is often found on Run¬ 
up a stone or a piece of board. During the night it travels 
st°n n f there' 11 / aCe » tbe f? un f 9 ften in Egging I have found 
st of them, from the patriarchs of a mahogany color down to 
i as were no bigger Ilian small nieces of white thread The 
itment against them is this: They feed on the line fibrous roots 
iost plants, but are especially destructive to strawberries. These 
slowly work at, gradually dwarfing them to mere weeds blos- 
3 and fruit having vanished forever. The same dwarfing i’ s ge en 
lany other plants, young trees and vines, which must be referred 
le same agency. Their scattered position in the ground efifect- 
r conceals them from any warfare that I am able to wage 
r. Walsb regarded the species as new, and described it under 
! name lulus multistriatus ; but on page 70 of the same volume, 
(ten ihes this species with lulus ceruleocinctus of Wood me- 
ply described. 5 F 
, Europe a n species of Iulidae has long been known to burrow the 
ol the strawberry m a manner precisely similar to that here 
■ted. In his Entomologie Horticole,” Boisduval says that this 
gean strawberry millipede, Blaniuhts guttnlatus, “is usually 
jt under the straw in strawbeiry beds; it introduces itself into 
irnt, at the time ot maturity, devours the pulp, and remains 
roceedings American Philosophical Society, Vol. XI, (1869) p. 181. 
