INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE GRAPE-VINE. 
TIIE AMERICAN YINE-CHAFER. 
(Anomala lucicola, Fabr.) 
Order of COLEOrTERA. Family of Melolontiiidae. 
One of the insects injurious to the grape vine in Europe, and 
sometimes to a serious extent, is a small beetle belonging to the 
family of Melolonthid <e, and resembling, in its geseral characters, 
the common May-beetle or Dorr-beetle which makes such a buz¬ 
zing about our lamps in the early summer evening. This insect 
is known as th q Anomala vitis , or Yine-chafer, and we have in this 
country one species at least, of the same genus, which has the 
same injurious habits, though never to so great an extent. This 
species is now generally regarded by entomologists, I believe, as 
the Anomala lucicola of Fabricius, though it has often been con¬ 
founded with another species, the A. varians of the same author. 
Dr. Harris mentions it in his treatise upon the noxious insects of 
Massachusetts, and speaks of its being quite destructive in parti¬ 
cular localities of that State in the year 1825. 
About the last of June of the present year (1870), I received a 
box of these insects from Mr. E. J. Ayres, of Yilla Eidge, to whom 
I have been indebted for many interesting insects, and to whom 
I am happy to have this opportunity of publicly expressing my 
thanks. Mr. Ayres gives so graphic an account of the habits of 
this insect, as observed by himself, that I cannot do better than 
copy his words: 
“I send you a box of perhaps a dozen or more beetles which 
are new to me, and which are just now making sad havoc with 
