nale, is given by Robinson in Volume II. of the Transactions 
American Entomological Society, under the same specific 
I ' ' 
! n injurious insect it is mentioned by Dr. Packard in the 
husetts Agricultural Report for 1870, and in the Tenth Report 
! G-eological and Geographical Survey of Colorado and Adja- 
irritory, 1576. By Miss Murtfeldt it is reported as injurious 
rose, in the third volume of the American Entomologist 
and by Prof. Lintner as a clover insect in the Annual 
of the New York Agricultural Society for the same year. 
1 the foregoing articles except the first, this species is treated 
Clemens’ specific name, but in Fernald’s Catalogue of the 
idse of North America, (1882), this is reduced to a synonym 
Iker’s triferanus. The larva was not distinguished in our 
g cages from that of the preceding species (Diclielia sul- 
ici), consequently I am unable to give a detailed description 
Clemens’ description of the imago is as follows: 
ochreous or brownish ochreous except the minute third 
vhich is blackish. Head and thorax ochreous or brownish 
,is. 
L’ior wings pure pale reddish brown within the central fascia, 
on internal margin, which is broadly covered at base with 
ti brown scales forming a rather prominent irregular spot 
:1 by an aggregation of intermediate pale ochreous and black- 
es to the fascia. Central fascia broad, distinctly dark brown, 
nes reddish brown. The sub-apical costal spot is dark brown 
oarated from the central fascia by a reddish brown shade, 
maining outer portion of the wing pale ochreous except a 
pus brown spot above the anal angle. Fringes dark ochreous. 
irior wings fuscous above, testaceous beneath. Fringes pale 
Dus, much clouded centrally with dark fuscous. 
nse, male 15, female 19 mm.” 
species has been collected from Maine and New York to 
; and Texas, and has been found feeding on the cranberry, 
ft maple, oak, apple, rose, beans, Gnaphalium polycephcdum, 
strawberry, and corn. 
[specimens, collected on May 29, emerged June 80. 
I 
4. The Common Lady Bug. 
(Hippodamia macidata, DeG.) 
Order Coleoptera. Family Coccinellid^. 
* are a thousand things in the experience of every naturalist 
r that the adjustments of Nature are rarely exact. 
the best of our zoological friends occasionally turn against 
le most insectivorous of birds fails to discriminate in its 
s between the enemies and the friends of man, and the re- 
