Report on the Rocky Mountain locust and other insects now injuring or likely to injure field and garden crops in the western states and territories . XX, Fig. 13.) Coppery gray, often pruinose; width of thorax twice its length, sideswell rounded in front, behind somewhat sinuous, punctate, furrowed,each side with an oblique, deeply-impressed line; wing-covers withdeeplj-impressed linos ; apex rounded, the wing-covers scarcely divari-cate. Length, inch.—(Le Conte.) Melanophila drummondi Kir-by. (Plate LXX, Fig. 14.) Body densely punctured, sha-greened ; shining, reflecting me-tallic c
Report on the Rocky Mountain locust and other insects now injuring or likely to injure field and garden crops in the western states and territories . XX, Fig. 13.) Coppery gray, often pruinose; width of thorax twice its length, sideswell rounded in front, behind somewhat sinuous, punctate, furrowed,each side with an oblique, deeply-impressed line; wing-covers withdeeplj-impressed linos ; apex rounded, the wing-covers scarcely divari-cate. Length, inch.—(Le Conte.) Melanophila drummondi Kir-by. (Plate LXX, Fig. 14.) Body densely punctured, sha-greened ; shining, reflecting me-tallic colors, especially on theprothorax, with three bright yel-low spots on the posterior two-thirds of each wing-cover, theanterior spot being the , inch. The Girdler, Oncideres cingu-latus Say. (Fig. 07.) Although this beetle is notknown to inhabit Colorado or theRocky Mountains,! have thoughtit well to introduce the followingfigure received from Prof. I. , of Chickies, Pa., asillustrating its mode of cuttingoff hickory branches. ProfessorHaldemans account is given atlength in the Guide to the Studyof Insects, p. Fig. 67.—Work of the Girdler Beetle. INSECTS NOT SPECIALLY Transformations of Pleotomus fallens Le Conte. It is not improbable that this insect in its early stage as a larva isbeneficial to vegetation, since so far as known the young of our fire-fliesdevour worms, other larva, and snails, but the individuals of this speciesare so rare, that they probably exert but a slight influence for good or evil,agriculturally speaking. I have received three specimens of this larvafrom Texas through Mr. G. W. Belfrage, on whose authority solely theabove determination is given. For a specimen of the male, and of theexceedingly rare female, I am indebted to the kindness of G. D. Smith,esq., of Boston, who loaned them for the purpose of being drawn. The larva is unsually long and narrow, and much flattened. The pro- 806 REPORT UKITED STA
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