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liad hollowed out for itself in the ground a little oval cell, 
th within, and there, curled up like a white grub, was awaiting 
chances of the winter. Many hundreds of these larvae were 
'tiled, but not a pupa was found, nor yet a single adult beetle, 
of the latter were obtained in strawberry fields at Cobden, in 
nber of the present year, showing that a sprinkling of these 
3 S hibernate. That it is only a sprinkling was clear, not only 
the great numbers of mature larvae of the species in the ground 
3 time, but likewise from the fact that adults of Paria aterrima 
collected by the hundred, although the strawberry roots had 
much less seriously attacked by that species than by Scelodonta. 
e following spring (April 12tli), the larvae were still in these 
e retreats, unchanged, often as many as fifteen or twenty in 
iround a single stool of the plants. On the 16th of this month, 
idults were seen by Mr. Webster in a strawberry field, but 
were the only mature individuals captured during several days 
reful and active field work. 
q umber of these encysted larvae were brought to the Laboratory 
\ at this time, for the purpose of watching them in their trans¬ 
itions. 
! ! ,y 9th, the root-worms were still in their winter condition ; but 
le 20th pupation was well under way, and about half those in 
ields were now in the pupa stage. A thorough search yielded 
iult specimens; and no young larvae of any sort were found 
them. 
the 7th of June a single adult beetle emerged from the lot of 
} brought from the South in April, thus giving us the first clue 
ie species we were dealing with. The next day three more 
mens came out, and on the day following the earth was examined 
ully, and all the specimens were removed. Fifteen adults of 
>donta were thus obtained, all still in their cells but two; and 
these were one pupa and three larvae, one of which was dead. 
15th, many adult Scelodontas were found in the ground in 
n county, with larvae and pupae as well, but no adults could 
ot by sweeping the vines; but June 19th, two more adults 
ged from a lot of southern larvae kept in the Laboratory since 
the 25th of June, a specimen was sent me from Michigan, 
orting to be a “root-worm of the first brood,” but which proved 
ibsequent study to be a larva of Scelodonta. This was the only 
men found there in this stage by my correspondent, although 
mber of pupae were seen at the same time, which were unfor- 
bely lost in transit. On the first of July, Mr. C. W. Butler, of 
i, reported the frequent occurrence of the adults on heads of 
t, one pair being taken in copulo , He had also taken the 
)le to breed a number of the larvae from the strawberries, and 
merging proved to be Scelodonta pubescens. A few beetles which 
dormed in our breeding boxes, w T ere placed in a cage with grow- 
trawberry plants on the 22d of June. They immediately com¬ 
bed eating the leaves, making small, round holes or emargina- 
at or near the edge. Some of these beetles escaped, but others 
i in the cage until July 30, when they were removed. The leaves 
