. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York. 184 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM. The beetle.— The beetles are oval, more flattened than the Chrysome-lids usually, and vary in length from two-tenths to three-tenths of an inch. The head is black. The thoraxis mainly black centrally, withits outer sides bordered with wing-covers are dull yel-lowish, with about seven blackFig. scmptaj «, usual markings; b, c, spots anci lines, and the inner d, e, variations. (After Riley, in Rept. Commis. Agrkui. for 1884.) margins joining over the back, also black, and the body be
. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York. 184 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM. The beetle.— The beetles are oval, more flattened than the Chrysome-lids usually, and vary in length from two-tenths to three-tenths of an inch. The head is black. The thoraxis mainly black centrally, withits outer sides bordered with wing-covers are dull yel-lowish, with about seven blackFig. scmptaj «, usual markings; b, c, spots anci lines, and the inner d, e, variations. (After Riley, in Rept. Commis. Agrkui. for 1884.) margins joining over the back, also black, and the body beneath blue-black. Successive broods.— The injurious character of the beetle is intensifiedby there being two or three broods of it each year. The brood nowpresent with you is from eggs that were laid on the willows early in theseason. Under favoring conditions for multiplication, the subsequentbroods will be more numerous and of course more destructive. Remedy.— It is fortunate for your willow-growers that we have a com-paratively simple remedy for this new willow pest, otherwise the
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