. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. Fig. 8.—The tobacco flea-beetle (Epitrix parvula) : a, Adult; o, larva, side view ; c, pupa, from below. Enlarged. (Chit- tenden.} and its general appearance will serve readily to distinguish it from the tobacco beetle. Several species of insects which occasionally are found living or feeding in dried tobacco are likely to be mistaken for the tobacco beetle. These are enumerated below. A reddish-brown beetle (Thaneroclerus girodi Chevrolat), considerably larger than the tobacco beetle, often may be found in tobacco or in boxes of c
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. Fig. 8.—The tobacco flea-beetle (Epitrix parvula) : a, Adult; o, larva, side view ; c, pupa, from below. Enlarged. (Chit- tenden.} and its general appearance will serve readily to distinguish it from the tobacco beetle. Several species of insects which occasionally are found living or feeding in dried tobacco are likely to be mistaken for the tobacco beetle. These are enumerated below. A reddish-brown beetle (Thaneroclerus girodi Chevrolat), considerably larger than the tobacco beetle, often may be found in tobacco or in boxes of cigars. This species feeds on the different stages of the acco beetle. The adult, larva, and pupa s. s are shown in Plate II, figure 3; Pla* figure 5; and Plate IV. This insect if fully discussed in the section dealing . ith the parasitic and predacious enemies of the tobacco beetle. The larger tobacco beetle (Catorama tabaci Guerin) (PL II, fig. 1; PL III, figs. 2, 4; text figs. 9 and 10) attacks cured to- bacco and tobacco seed in much the same manner as does the common tobacco or " cigarette "beetle (Lasioderma serricorne) and its larger size makes it still more destructive than is the common species. Cigar tobacco injured by Catorama tabaci is shown in figure 6. So far as known this species has been reported only from three localities in the United States. It was found in tobacco in this country for the first time in 1912. One of the leading cigar companies at Key West, Fla., reported the insect to the Bureau of Entomology and sent specimens collected in a shipment of cigar tobacco from Habana, Cuba. At about the same time a similar report accompanied by specimens was received from a cigar company located in Philadel- phia, the beetles having been found also in a shipment of Habana to- bacco. In the following year speci- mens of the Catorama were taken by Mr. A. C. Morgan of the Bureau of Entomology in bales of Habana tobacco which were being re- moved from a bon
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