. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. TUB WUOD-BORIXG BEETLES. IHST the borers, -svith possible recourse to the use of repellant washes, is about all that can be done and in the majority of instances should afford considerable protection. In one specimen from Porter County the tips of elytra are acute and divaricate. S. Candida Fab. (Fifr. 470), length 15-20 mm., has the same range as mocsia. Its larva is known as the "apple
. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. TUB WUOD-BORIXG BEETLES. IHST the borers, -svith possible recourse to the use of repellant washes, is about all that can be done and in the majority of instances should afford considerable protection. In one specimen from Porter County the tips of elytra are acute and divaricate. S. Candida Fab. (Fifr. 470), length 15-20 mm., has the same range as mocsia. Its larva is known as the "apple tree borer" and is sometimes very destructive to apple, crab-apple, June berry and Kg. 470. Saperda mn- red-haw. It attacks the tree near the base, and * ' " '**"" ^"'' several thicknesses of newspaper, loosely tied, or a wire netting kept at a distance of half an inch from the trunk for a height of three feet above the ground from ^lay till September, will serve as a pro- tection. A heavy coating of whitewash with Paris green to the same height M-ill also often prevent the beetle from depositing eggs. N. punctirolUs Say. length 9-10 mm., breeds in the poison ivy. Iilius radicans L., and occurs about the middle of Jime on that plant. 2005 (CAST)). Sapekda TBIDENTATA Ollv., Ent, IV, 1795, 30. Elongate, slender, subcylindrlcal. Blackish-brown to plceous, rather densely clothed with fine, gray, prostrate /'''!^\^^/'~~-v pubescence, that on under surface longer and more con- spicuous ; thorax with an orange stripe each side extend- ing onto head, where it divides and encircles an eye, usually black dots each side belri\Y the stripe; elytra each with a narrow, suhmarginal, orange stripe from which proceed three bands, the first nearly trans- verse except at tip. the other two oblique and usually Fig 471. X li joining those from opposite side at suture. Thorax and (After Riley.) elytra rather coarsely and sparsely punctate, the latter with tips subti
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