. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. 136 I-ASIILY XXXVIl.âELATERIDjE. The larva is one of the smaller injurious wire worms, often doing much damage to corn and wheat. It is of a light waxy yellow color, nine to 12 mm. in length, sparsely hairy and consid- erably flattened in form; the last segment is nearly flat, rugose above, without bristle-bearing tubercles and with an acute apical notch. (Fig. 282 a.) It attacks sprouting corn and wheat, es
. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. 136 I-ASIILY XXXVIl.âELATERIDjE. The larva is one of the smaller injurious wire worms, often doing much damage to corn and wheat. It is of a light waxy yellow color, nine to 12 mm. in length, sparsely hairy and consid- erably flattened in form; the last segment is nearly flat, rugose above, without bristle-bearing tubercles and with an acute apical notch. (Fig. 282 a.) It attacks sprouting corn and wheat, especially that ))lanted on sod, eating part of the softened grain and boring up into the tender stem. No effective has yet been discov- ered, though,fall plowing for corn will greatly lessen their nimibers. D. amaMis Lee, color of elccjanx, length 3 mm., is recorded from IMaryland, Ohio and Texas. Megapenthes limhalis Herbst, black, disk of thorax (in great part) and sides of elj^tra red- dish-yellow, length 8-11 mm., occurs in the IMiddle and Southern States and has been re- corded from Cincinnati. XXVIII. LuDius Esch. 1829. (Gr., "a stage player or ;) Large black or dark reddish-brown Slaters, having the prosternal sutures concave on the outer side; tarsi simple, pubescent beneath; hind coxal plates less suddenly dilated on inner side and strongly toothed at insertion of the thighs; sec- ond and third antennal joints always small, third a little shorter than second, the two together shorter than fourth, the terminal joint suddenly narrower near apex, presenting the appearance of a false joint. (Fig. 3. No. 1.) For a synopsis of the genus see LeConte.âHvans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XII, 1884, â 15-49. 1392 (4271). Lddius attenuatds Say, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist, N. Y., I, 1S25, 257; ibid. I, 392; II, 600. Elongate, moderately robust, gradually narrower behind the middle. Dark reddish-brown or black, feebly shining, clothed with very fine silky pubescence; tho
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