. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. ATTACKING THE ROOTS, 229 male overlap one another like tiles on a roof. It is very similar in appearance to the broad-necked prionus, but the two species may be distinguished by the difference in the Fig. number of the joints in their antennae : in imbricornis the male has about nineteen joints, and the female about sixteen, while in laticollis both sexes have twelve-jointed antennae. Any remedial Es^asures useful for one species will be equally applicable to the other. No. —The Grape-vin
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. ATTACKING THE ROOTS, 229 male overlap one another like tiles on a roof. It is very similar in appearance to the broad-necked prionus, but the two species may be distinguished by the difference in the Fig. number of the joints in their antennae : in imbricornis the male has about nineteen joints, and the female about sixteen, while in laticollis both sexes have twelve-jointed antennae. Any remedial Es^asures useful for one species will be equally applicable to the other. No. —The Grape-vine Eoot-borer. jEgeriapoUstiformis Harris. This larva resembles that of the peach-tree borer, No. 97, in appearance and habits, but is a little larger in size. The larv^ of the Prionus beetles have only six legs, while this Egerian larva, in common with most lepidopterous insects, has sixteen legs,—-six horny ones on the anterior segments, and ten ^^^' 236. fleshy or membranous ones on the hinder seg^ments,—and when full grown it measures from an inch to an inch and a half in length. (See Fig. 236.) It lives ex- clusively under ground, and consumes the bark and sap-wood of the grape-roots, eating irregular furrows into their sub-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co
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