. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 3'78 A. E. Verrill—2^he Bermuda Islands. 790 This beetle is minute; length about ;™, or about ^ inch; color light brown with a darker brown band across the elytra. The larva is slender, white, with a yellow head and brown jaws; length ™™. It feeds on the roots of Jamestown-weed and other allied plants, and sometimes attacks common potatoes, causing
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 3'78 A. E. Verrill—2^he Bermuda Islands. 790 This beetle is minute; length about ;™, or about ^ inch; color light brown with a darker brown band across the elytra. The larva is slender, white, with a yellow head and brown jaws; length ™™. It feeds on the roots of Jamestown-weed and other allied plants, and sometimes attacks common potatoes, causing them to have a rough or pimply surface. The pupa is formed just under the earth about the roots of the plants on which the larvoe feed. 163 164. Figure 163.—Strawberry Flea-beetle (Haltica ignita); a, imago, x43>£; b, eggs, nat. size ; c, larva; d, segment of larva, much enlarged ; e, larva, dorsal view, enlarged ; /, pupa, x 4. Figure 164.—Tobacco Flea-beetle (Epitrix parvula); a, imago, x 10 ; b, larva, x 8 ; c, head of larva ; d, posterior leg ; e, anal segment; /, pupa. Figure 164a.—The same; imago, more enlarged; after Chittenden. Ceramhycids; Long-horned Beetles; Capricorn Beetles; Long- horned Wood-borers; Girdlers, etc. Several undetermined species were obtained. The most interest- ing is a plain yellowish brown or chestnut-colored species, with a long, rather slender, cylindrical body, 12-18™™ long. It resembles an American species of twig-pruners [IfJlaphidon). Scarahmids; Lamellicorn Beetles; Tumble-dungs; Dung-beetles; Chafers ; May-bugs, etc. Several undetermined species of this family were obtained. The most common of the larger forms is the " Hard-back," which was perhaps an indigenous species. See p. 784. Hard-back. [Ligyrus gibbosus juvenciis (Oliv.) Burm.) Figure 168a. J. M. Jones, 1876, states that this is the "most common beetle on the ; It was also recorded by Heilprin (Berm. Is., p. 92) as. Please
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