. 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. 798 FAMILY XXXIX.—BUPEESTID^. domen being in triangular spots on sides of ventral segments. Occiput witli a more distinctly impressed median line. Elytra with an indistinct costa, between which and suture the surface is broadly grooved; tips ending in a short, sharp spine and unevenly toothed. Length 8-12 mm. Warren and Posey counties; scarce. June 9-July '1'-'). Occurs only on the hackberry, Cdtis ncddenial
. 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. 798 FAMILY XXXIX.—BUPEESTID^. domen being in triangular spots on sides of ventral segments. Occiput witli a more distinctly impressed median line. Elytra with an indistinct costa, between which and suture the surface is broadly grooved; tips ending in a short, sharp spine and unevenly toothed. Length 8-12 mm. Warren and Posey counties; scarce. June 9-July '1'-'). Occurs only on the hackberry, Cdtis ncddenialiH L., in the twigs of which the larva' l)oi'e. 1514 (4721).. Fig. 308. a, anal end of body of larva; 6, larva; c, beetle. Lines sbow natural size. (.Mter Riley.) Ageilis HL'FicoLLis Fab., Ent. Syst., I, , 214. Elongate. Black or bluish-black; head and thorax usually bright cupre- ous. Occiput with a deep median fur- row, somewhat strigose. Thorax broad- er than long, apex slightly wider than base; disk with a rather deep oblique depression on each side, and a feeble one in front of scutellum; surface faint- ly strigose and rather densely punc- tate. Elytra a little broadened behind the middle, nearly concealing the sides of abdomen from above, tips rounded, distinctly serrulate; disk flat, a basal depression on each side; surface with- out trace of carinte, closely granulate. Presternum obtusely lobed in front. Length mm. (Fig. 308.) Throughout the State; common. Slay 18-July 22. Occurs on the foliage and stems of blackberry and raspberry bushes, in the canes of which the larvas bore, forming galls on some varieties. should be cut out in winter and burned with the enclosed grub; or the shoots made up to the first of July should be cut off at the surface, because in them the larva' of a new brood are con- tained. The shoots formed later in the season will be sufficient for the next year's crop of fruit. A. crinlcornis Plorn. length 4,4 mm., is known to occur
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