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e have next to notice the fact that the above account of the 
)ry of this species does not agree with that given by Prof. A. 
ook in his Ingham paper, in which he says: 
Phis species is without doubt two-brooded. In March they were 
by Mr. Ezra Jones, through whose kindness I have been sup- 
1 with specimens. In April and May they were very numerous, 
last of May the beetles disappeared. Now, June 19, they are, 
die most part, in the pupa state, in earthen cocoons, about an 
and one-half beneath the surface of the ground. I find many 
grown grubs or larvae, and a few smaller larvae which were 
d to be feeding on the tender rootlets. Certainly in July another 
ration of beetles will come forth. Whether there are more than 
broods or not, I am unable to state, but shall be able to de- 
ine during the season. I presume they pass the winter as 
jos, from their early appearance as beetles in the spring. They 
exist in the winter as pupae, and very likely some do, which 
d account for their scattering along as they do, during the 
on.” 
my earlier papers on the life history of this species, I followed 
. Cook in his statement that it was double-brooded, not having 
[, until this autumn, his revised account of the life history of 
! a in the Report of the Michigan State Board of Agriculture 
idy cited. In this he says : 
'his species is either two-brooded, or else the beetles which come 
i in July and August hibernate, and do not lay their eggs until 
next spring. * * * In July the beetles came forth. That 
3 beetles lay eggs again that season is possible, but I think 
remain until the next season, and do not pair and lay eggs 
the following spring.” 
j own investigations had led me to believe, however, that Paria 
single-brooded, and that the larvae and pupae to be found in the 
ad in early spring were those of another species, having no 
ection with the Paria beetles at that time on the leaves. 
•y further uncertainty as to the identity of the conditions oc- 
ng in Michigan and in Southern Illinois, was dispelled by the 
pt of Scelodonta, larva and imago, from strawberry fields at 
■ing, in collections of root-worms and leaf-beetles kindly sent 
>y Mr. C. M. Weed,—the larva on the 25th of June and the 
e on the 26th of July. 
Scelodonta pubescens, Mels. 
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LITERATURE. 
[Plate VII, Fig. 7; Plate VIII, Fig. 5; and Plate IX, Figs. 1 and 2.1 
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is species has a shorter bibliography than the others, and has 
k before been mentioned as an injurious insect, 
was described as Eumolpus pubescens by Melsheimer, in 1847*, 
daced by Leconte in the genus Heteraspis of Chevriolat in 18591. 
is genus was identified with Scelodonta of Westwood, in Hen¬ 
’s index to Leconte’s descriptions of Colcopteral, and our species 
roc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. III. p. 169. 
nithsonian Contributions, Vol. XI, p. 23. 
rans. Amer. Entomological Society, Vol. IX, p. 252. 
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