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attered through the woods, where they feed on the wild grape, 
midsummer they are also often abundant on clover. 
Note.— Adult specimens of Colaspis tristis were collected by sweep- 
g the foliage of the strawberry in June, in such numbers that it 
very probable that this species will be found to have similar 
: obits and history to those of C. brunneci. They were feeding on the 
aves of the strawberry in August. 
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Paria aterrima, Oliv. 
and 
Paria sexnotata, Say. 
[Plate VIII, Figs. 1, 2 and 3, and Plate IX, Fig. 5.1 
LITERATURE. 
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The first of the above-named forms, described originally by Olivier*, 
'I -s re-described by Say under the name of Colaspis striata , in 18241, 
d a form now reckoned a variety of this species was described 
I Leconte in 1859, under the name of Paria opacicollisX . 
Paria sexnotata , very doubtfully distinguishable from the species 
it mentioned, has likewise been frequently described, first by Say 
18241, and again by the same author under the name of 4-notata, 
Leconte as 4-guttata, and by Dejean as gilvipes. 
is an injurious insect, this was first mentioned in the Report of 
h Ontario Entomological Society for 1878. In the brief account 
it there given, the adult is said to have been extremely injurious in 
nada, completely riddling the strawberry leaves in fields near Dela- 
re. It was next mentioned in this connection by Prof. A. J. Cook, of 
nsing, Michigan, who, in a paper read before the Ingham Horti- 
tural Society in 1880, and published in the Report of the Horti- 
tural Society of Michigan, for that year, reported this species as 
root-worm of the strawberry, occurring in destructive numbers 
ir Lansing, Michigan. A review by Prof. Riley of Prof. Cook’s 
per, with some additional details, appeared in the third volume 
the American Entomologist, in 1880; and a revision of the origi- 
U article of Prof. Cook was published in the report of the State 
ard of Agriculture of Michigan, for the year ending August 31st, 
10. Another account of the species, with some additional notes 
in its habits, was given by myself in the Transactions of the 
nois State Horticultural Society for 1882, and again in the fol- 
dng year in a paper on “Insects Affecting the Strawberry,” pub- 
led in the Transactions of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural 
uety for 1883. 
! Encyclopedic methodique, dictionnaire des insectes (.iusqu’a la lettre E). 
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Vol. Ill, p. 444; Com- 
e Writings, Vol. II, p. 212. 
: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. XI, p. 23. 
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