. Manual of vegetable-garden insects. The undersideof the abdomen is ringed with a narrow band of light hairs onthe hind margin of each segment. BLISTER-BEETLES 311 Tfie larc/e black blisfrr-hcetlr, Lytta hisperata Horn (Fig. 193). In southern California sugar-beets are sometimes seriously injured by this shining black blister-beetle, about f inch in length. The dorsal surface often has a rich, bluish metallic luster and there is a small red spot on the middle of the face just above the eyes. The panther blistcr-becflc, Kpicauta pardalis Leconte (Fig. 194), is a little less than ^ inch in leng
. Manual of vegetable-garden insects. The undersideof the abdomen is ringed with a narrow band of light hairs onthe hind margin of each segment. BLISTER-BEETLES 311 Tfie larc/e black blisfrr-hcetlr, Lytta hisperata Horn (Fig. 193). In southern California sugar-beets are sometimes seriously injured by this shining black blister-beetle, about f inch in length. The dorsal surface often has a rich, bluish metallic luster and there is a small red spot on the middle of the face just above the eyes. The panther blistcr-becflc, Kpicauta pardalis Leconte (Fig. 194), is a little less than ^ inch in length, light silverygray and coveredwith numerous(• )nfluent blackspots on which thepubescence is lack-ing. It has been reported as a seriouspest of potatoes in Arizona, where itappears in the fields about the first ofJuly. The croiv blister-beetle, Kpicauta cor- rina Leconte, is large and black, ^, nearlv an inch in length. It has been Fic. 194. — The pan- ... thcr blister-beetle reported as injurious to potatoes m^^^*)-
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