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ground, gas lime should 
plowed under in autumn, 
earth, a second dressing 
ately after plowing. . jji ■ 
The value of this application is attested by Mr. J. H. Hale of 
Connecticut, who writes me that he has used gas lime to help rid 
the land of grubs, and that following this, he has had grand crops 
of berries. 
The use of flour of sulphur for the purpose of repelling the grubs 
from newly set plants is also recommended by Mr. Hale. He says: 
“In a field full of them we saved all of our strawberry plants by 
mixino- flour of sulphur in and around the roots of each plant at 
time of planting; and in some rows where this was not done, most 
of the plants were destroyed.” , J 
The Goldsmith Beetle. 
Cotal'pa lanigera, L. 
be thickly spread upon the surface and 
and allowed to remain all winter in the « 
being also applied to the surface immedi- 
Order Coleoptera. Family Scarab^ed^. 
1 
[Plate VII, Fig. 2 and 3.1 
The larva of this species is so extremely similar to the common 
white grub described in the preceding article, that the two are 
doubtless ordinarily confounded. 
It is however, usually much less abundant than the preceding, I 
although it sometimes occurs locally in destructive numbers. Hie 
larva is known to feed upon the roots of clover as well as upon 
strawberries, and it is probably an indiscriminate feeder. 
The beetle (Plate VII, Fig. 2) is about nine-tenths of an inch long, 
broad oval in shape, of a lemon-yellow color above, glittering like 
burnished gold on the top of the head and thorax; the under side 
of the body is copper-colored, and thickly covered with whitish wool, j 
and the legs are brownish yellow, or brassy, shaded with green L 
These fine beetles begin to appear in Massachusetts about the mid¬ 
dle of May, and continue generally till the 20th of June. In the j 
morning and evening twilight they come forth from their letiea s, 
and fly about with a humming and rustling sound among the | 
branches of trees, the tender leaves of which they devour. I ear 
trees are particularly subject to their attacks, but the elm, hi^^oiy, 
poplar, oak, and probably a*lso other kinds of trees, are fiequen e 
and injured by them. During the middle of the day they remai 
at rest upon the trees, clinging to the under sides oi he leaves, | 
and endeavor to conceal themselves by drawing two or three leaxes 
together, and holding them in this position with their long unequal i 
claws. In some seasons they occur in profusion, and then may oe 
obtained in great quantities by shaking the young trees on wincn 
they are lodged in the daytime, as they do not attempt to ny w i 
thus disturbed, but fall at once to the ground.* 
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*Harris. 
