. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 276 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE GRAPE. inch and a quarter across. Its fore wings are grayish brown with a silky lustre, with several pale dots on the front edge, and three short dark streaks near the middle. The hind wings are paler. When found to be injurious, the caterpillars may be subdued by hand-picking. No. 149.—The Spotted Pelidnota. Pelidnotapunctata (Linn.). This enemy to the grape-vine is a large and handsome beetle (Fig. 285, c), which eats the leaves, making numerous Fig. holes in the
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 276 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE GRAPE. inch and a quarter across. Its fore wings are grayish brown with a silky lustre, with several pale dots on the front edge, and three short dark streaks near the middle. The hind wings are paler. When found to be injurious, the caterpillars may be subdued by hand-picking. No. 149.—The Spotted Pelidnota. Pelidnotapunctata (Linn.). This enemy to the grape-vine is a large and handsome beetle (Fig. 285, c), which eats the leaves, making numerous Fig. holes in them. It measures about an inch in length and half an inch in width at its widest part, is nearly oval in form, of a dull reddish-yellow color, with a polished surface, and three black spots on the outer side of each wing-cover. The tho- rax, which is rather darker than the wing-covers, is slightly bronzed, and has a small black dot on each side; the jaws and hinder part of the head are black, so also is the scutellum, a small, nearly triangular piece at the point of juncture of the wing-covers with the thorax. The transparent, gauzy wings,. 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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