. Some insects injurious to garden and orchard crops : a series of articles dealing with insects of this class. burg, N. Y.: July 22, 1898, he wrote that the beetles andtheir larvae were very destructive to tomatoes inhis vicinity. In response to a request for larvaeour correspondent sent, under date of August 5,two minute larvae taken from about the roots oftomato. Although when they were received they fig. 20.—EpUHx cucumeris:were not in fit condition for study, there was no adult bf tle< much enlar§ed ^ 7 (original). doubt as to their identity, as this is the only flea-beetle of the genu
. Some insects injurious to garden and orchard crops : a series of articles dealing with insects of this class. burg, N. Y.: July 22, 1898, he wrote that the beetles andtheir larvae were very destructive to tomatoes inhis vicinity. In response to a request for larvaeour correspondent sent, under date of August 5,two minute larvae taken from about the roots oftomato. Although when they were received they fig. 20.—EpUHx cucumeris:were not in fit condition for study, there was no adult bf tle< much enlar§ed ^ 7 (original). doubt as to their identity, as this is the only flea-beetle of the genus Epitrix which is positively known to occur in that latitude, or, in fact, in any portion of New York State. Adult beetles collected near Washington were parasitized, evidentlyby the same species mentioned as upon JEJ. parvula. Cucumber flea beetle is an obvious misnomer, as anyone knowswho has studied the habits of the genus Epitrix. The present species,cucumeris, so far as we are able to judge, would not live in the larvalcondition on any other plant than those of the botanical order Solana-. 90 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO GARDEN AND ORCHARD CROPS. cese, and the adults, although inclined to be omnivorous at times, arepractically confined to this order of plants when such are beetle is illustrated in the accompanying figure. OTHER SPECIES OF EPITRIX Of the remaining species of Epitrix, E. brevis Sz. has been found byits describer on Solatium nigrum. It closely resembles cucumeris incolor and in its comparatively sparsely punctate thorax. It differschiefly in its shorter form and feeble autebasal thoracic is evidently rare, being recorded only from Enterprise, Fla., andColumbus, Tex. The larval habits of E. lobata Or., which is known from North Caro-lina and Florida, and E. subcrinita Lee, which Inhabits Oregon, Cali-fornia, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, are unknown. Both probably feedin their larval stages on Solanacea?; the latter with little d
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