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 . Fig. known by itsrather longbod}, and theprothorax be-ing narrowerthan the ely-tra. The an-tenna3 arerather long, the fore coxa:- are swollen, pressed together, and the clawsare either free or united at the base. We have no nativespecies, but Crioceris asparayi Linn, has been introducedinto gardens about New York, doing much injury to theasparagus. Fitch describes it as being about a quarter of aninch long, with a tawny red prothorax and th
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 . Fig. known by itsrather longbod}, and theprothorax be-ing narrowerthan the ely-tra. The an-tenna3 arerather long, the fore coxa:- are swollen, pressed together, and the clawsare either free or united at the base. We have no nativespecies, but Crioceris asparayi Linn, has been introducedinto gardens about New York, doing much injury to theasparagus. Fitch describes it as being about a quarter of aninch long, with a tawny red prothorax and three bright lemonyellow spots on each elytron. The larva is soft-bodied, twice CHKYSOMELIDJK. 503 as long as thick, the bod}r thickening posteriorly, and of udull ash gray or obscure olive, with a black head and legs. Lema trilineata Olivier (Fig. 494 ; a, larva ; 6, terminal jointsof abdomen; c, pupa; c7, eggs) occurs in great abundanceon the leaves of the potato. The dirt} yellowish larva? arcfound on it abundantly, and hide themselves by covering their1 todies with their own excrement. They mature inabout twoweeks, transform in earthen cells cemented w
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