The terror inspired by the Colorado beetle seems to depend
very much, like a good deal of other terror, on novelty. Mr. Vernon Gregg, writing from Milford, New Jersey, who seems to &lave made the acquaintance of a vast multitude of these beetles, .dOes not seem afraid of them at all. It is, he says, his third year of, intimacy with these Colorado emigrants, and he seems to have reaped nothing but the peace of a good conscience out of his rather murderous intercourse with them. According to him, sprinkling the potatoes on which they are feeding with water poisoned by "Paris green,"—a technical term. not apparently recognised in England,--is neither a very onerous nor a very tedious occupation, and does the plants no harm; and if repeated two on three times for each crop, is a complete and effectual cure for the beetle. "To' compare this affliction with the drought IA last summer would be as a mosquito to an elephant." On the other hand, Dr. Holliek, of New Yorkovants the Pope to issue a. Bull against them, describes them as having eaten him quireout of potatoes, and as now keeping up with him a great battlelor "the egg-plants and tomatoes." "They attack all; solanacute; even deadly night-shade." Quot honzines, tot sentential But perhaps the man who would like a, Pope's Bull against them would not approve of trying "Paris green."
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