. A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. dent in the first and second larval stages, pupa and prepupa. (Seepi. X.) Distribution: Guadeloupe. French West Indies; Grenada, St. Vincent. St. Lucia,British West Indies; Trinidad, Tobago, Virgin Islands, Mauritius, Ceylon, addition to the above it is reported from Florida and was doubtless , H. M. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Entom. Bull. 99, pt. 2, 1912. Phyllopertha horticola Linnaeus. (Scarabaeidae; Coleoptera.) Hosts: Fruit irees and herbaceous plants. Injury: Destroy
. A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. dent in the first and second larval stages, pupa and prepupa. (Seepi. X.) Distribution: Guadeloupe. French West Indies; Grenada, St. Vincent. St. Lucia,British West Indies; Trinidad, Tobago, Virgin Islands, Mauritius, Ceylon, addition to the above it is reported from Florida and was doubtless , H. M. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Entom. Bull. 99, pt. 2, 1912. Phyllopertha horticola Linnaeus. (Scarabaeidae; Coleoptera.) Hosts: Fruit irees and herbaceous plants. Injury: Destroys foliage and roots. Description and biology: Adult length 8-11 mm.; body depressed, hairy; head andpro thorax shining green; elytra golden brown or chestnut; ventral parts black. Ap-pears in May and June (Italy). Feeds on leaves. The larva is a root feeder. Sil-vestri states that the adults and larvse of this insect feed on leaves and roots of fniittrees and herbaceous pjants. Distribution: , F. Dispense di Entomologie Agraria, 1911, ]). 311. 110 A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS Capnodis tenebrionis Linnaeus. (Buprestidse; Goleoptera.) Hosts: Various fruit : To leaves and roots. Description and biology: Adult length 15-22 mm.; color opaque black, with pro-thorax sparsely dusted with cinereous; feeds on leaves. Larva elongate, whitish, covered with a fine pubesence; feeds inroots and trunk beneath cortex. Eggs de-posited during August and September oncrown of trees. (See text fig. 59.)Distribution: Southern , F. Dispense di EntomologieAgraria, 1911. p. 335. Phylloblus oblongus Linnaeus. (Oblong Leaf Weevil. Brachyrhinidse;Goleoptera.) Hosts: Fruit trees, : Frequent. Adults attack youngbuds and leaves. Larvae feed on roots ofvarious plants. Description and biology: Adult length 4-5mm.; black; elytra covered with brownscales with reddish tinge or pale gray, bor-ders dark; head, thorax, and elytra coveredwith gray pubescence;
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