Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . 504 their burrows. Hispa (Uroplata) suturcdis Fabr. mines theLocust tree, and often proves very destructive in the Middleand Western States. They are flat, the body behind beingbroad and square, and tlie elytra are generall} ridged andfurrowed. Cassida aunchalcea Fabr., the j-ellow Helmet beetle, is hem-ispherical, flattened, so that the edges of the wings are verythin ; and the larva is broad, oval,flattened, and by means of two spin
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . 504 their burrows. Hispa (Uroplata) suturcdis Fabr. mines theLocust tree, and often proves very destructive in the Middleand Western States. They are flat, the body behind beingbroad and square, and tlie elytra are generall} ridged andfurrowed. Cassida aunchalcea Fabr., the j-ellow Helmet beetle, is hem-ispherical, flattened, so that the edges of the wings are verythin ; and the larva is broad, oval,flattened, and by means of two spinesterminating its upturned abdomen,holds its old cast larva skin over itsbod}^ as a means of protection. Dur-ing the last week in Jul}^ we havefound the larvai in all stages ofgrowth ver}^ abundant on the Morn-ing-glory in our garden, eating holes in the leaves. In theyoung the head and legs are more prominent than in the pupates the last of July and early in August. The Chelymorplia crihraria Fabr. (Fig. 496 ; a, pupa) wehave found in all its stages on the leaves of the silk-weed latein July and early in August, and in one instance in Salem itoccurred
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