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    ` [ about during mild spells of weather. When the Weather became   thm?
  V. very cold they could be found by digging down three or four   ln tl
  i i 4 ' inches where they lay coiled up at the bottoms of their burrows, l` (ml 
  ‘ seemingly without life, and feeling as cold to the hand as the t itat]
  _` soil itself, but soon reviving and becoming active when taken into   Oli;]
  . a warm room. Ordinarily out of doors they must lie in this tor— f it I
  . pid condition most of the winter, though we have some winters 5 mj tl
  _ during which I have no dotubt they become active at times.   wm
  i These partly grown grabs do not become pupze until June i I I
  i of the spring following. oa l\lay 30, 1895, they were still in t my
  A the larval condition. On June 11 of the same year they had most-   Lmé
  V ly made earthen cells in the soil and were pupating. These cells   alum
  " are nothing but earth glued together, and rendered smooth with- l Hm,]
  ‘ T in the cavit.y occupied by the pupa. Three examples measured   y `
  ‘ as follows: (1) 0.92 by 1.21 inch,   0.76 by 0.96 inch; (3)   (mm
  _ 0.60 by 0.96 inch. The walls varied in thickness, but averaged r ttm] '
  " 0.026 inch. The adults began to emerge indoors on July 3, and _ [Hist
  l‘` i one was observed out of doors on the 9th `of the same month. By   “·lHl_
  4 July 19 they become very common on very gripe wi ld] blackberries,   Simi
  and during early August become troublesome on early grapes, as   i U H
  already noted. 1\ single brood tlms develops each year. Q   'I il
  · While the beetlesare clumsy on their feet, they make use of { lm
  their very ample wings with considerable address, once they get   img
  them unfurlcd, flying about in the hot sunlight with a loud hun1—   Inch
  ming noisc somewhat like that of the bumble bees. Their fond-   NNW
  ness for sweets sometimes leads themito make persistent efforts   l'i“""`
  to get into bee hives, and during the summer of 1903 some col- A ‘ itlmlt
  onies of Cyprians belonging to the Division were kept constantly   lt`? '
  busy dragging them from the entrances and tumbling them from t l"l‘l"
  the alighting boards. The heavy shield of chitin with which the   "IW
 ·  body is enclosed protected them from the stings of the bees, so t Us lll
  that when ejected they simply pulled themselves together and 1
  went back to try again, thus finally working the colonies into a grow
 g very irritable condition. A half—dozen could sometimes be seen   Mi l
 — about a hive at a time. Here again, as in the Case Of iufggtgd 1 md °
  l vineyards and plantings of corn, the explanation of their abun- t OH U
rt .