. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . ppears as if it hadbeen obliquely cut off; on the middle of the back are twoangular projections. 192 INSECTS INFESTING THE OR APE. Fig. 177.—Grapevine Plume ;rf, the moth—colors, pale yellow,white, and brown ; a, the cater-pillars in their nests — color,greenish-yellow,with white hairs;6, the pupa — color, green orbrown; c, one of the horns onthe back of the pupa, enlarged;e, one of the leg-bearing segmentsof the larva, enlarged. The
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . ppears as if it hadbeen obliquely cut off; on the middle of the back are twoangular projections. 192 INSECTS INFESTING THE OR APE. Fig. 177.—Grapevine Plume ;rf, the moth—colors, pale yellow,white, and brown ; a, the cater-pillars in their nests — color,greenish-yellow,with white hairs;6, the pupa — color, green orbrown; c, one of the horns onthe back of the pupa, enlarged;e, one of the leg-bearing segmentsof the larva, enlarged. The perfect moth (Fig. llld)expands a little over nine lines,is of a tawny yellow color, andeach fore-wing is marked withabout five white spots ; theseMings are cleft or cut nearly tothe middle ; the hind wings arecleft twice, the forward cleftreaching nearly to the middle, and the second cleft reachesnearly to the base of the wing; they are rusty brown at thebase, with the remaining part tawny yellow. I have found theperfect insect; also, a rolled leaf on vines. Remedy.—Use No, 24. Spray in the latter part of April, orearly in May, with No. 5 or CHAPTER ex. The Grapevine, or Steel-blue Flea-beetle. (Cal.) (Haltica chalyhea.—Uliger.) Order, Coleoptera ; Family, Chrysomelid^. [Feeding upon the buds or leaves of the grape and willow;an elongate brownish six-legged larva, marked with blackdots and with a black head; finally changing to a small blue-black beetle, about two lines in length.] IN8E0TS INFESTINO THE GRAPE. 193 Fig-. 178.—Grape-vine Flea-beetle andLarvte; a, several lar-va? on a leaf; 6, a lar-va enlarged—colors,brown and black ; c,the cocoon; d, thebeetle enlarged—col-or, steel-blue. These beetles havethe hind thighsgreatly enlarged,which enables themto leap to a consid-erable distance, likea flea; it is from thispeculiarity that theytake the name of flea-beetles. They spend the Winter in some sheltered situa-tion, and come forth early in the followin
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