. 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. THE LEAP BEETLES. 1153. 2t3(i (iJTS'.li. Leptinotaksa deckmlixeata Say. .Tnnrn. Phil. .Vend. Xat, III. ISlM. 4.:3; ibid. II, i'ls. 0^â¢al, robust, eouvex. Lmll yellow; thorax 5 with two sliuit. (livergeut lines on disk and : small spots each side, Ijlack; elytra with suture and five narrow lines on each side, black, the second and third united near apex; knees and tarsi blackish. Length mm.
. 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. THE LEAP BEETLES. 1153. 2t3(i (iJTS'.li. Leptinotaksa deckmlixeata Say. .Tnnrn. Phil. .Vend. Xat, III. ISlM. 4.:3; ibid. II, i'ls. 0^â¢al, robust, eouvex. Lmll yellow; thorax 5 with two sliuit. (livergeut lines on disk and : small spots each side, Ijlack; elytra with suture and five narrow lines on each side, black, the second and third united near apex; knees and tarsi blackish. Length mm. (Fife'. The original home of this well-knovvn 1h etle was (.'olorado, Say having deseriliei it from the Upper ^Missouri River, where it fed upon th(- sand iii'tth\ Solnnum rosira- in in Dunal. It made its way Lrradttally eastward, migrating- from one potato patch to another, aided. d6iibth;^ss, hy railways and commeiX'e, tmtil it has spread nver the whole of the eastern I'nited States. It first i-ig i-?- a, aauit beetle; b, hind tur-ii' of same; 3, third tarsal joint; appeared in numhers in Indiana about *. true fourth joint; .5, so-caiied fourth -t â T 1 n 1 1 n Ti joint. (After Sliarp.; JSds. and the first lieetles ever collected by the writer were these "new-fashiimed" or "(Njlorado potato bvigs," an old tin l)asin and a stout stiek being the paraphernalia used. Siififice it to say thej'' were not taken for a collection, but at a fixed sum per hundred, jiaid to the children to clear the ])atch of the pests. ^\fterwards the dis(_overy that a solution of I'aris ijreeti "would fix 'em" put the tin l>asin metliod of collection out of vogtte. For a number of years the jiotato industry in the State was al- most destroyed by this beetle, btit its damages gradually lessened. until now they appear much fewer in numbers than between the years 1870 and 1890, and are readily kept in cheek by Paris green and other arsenites. The beetle hibernat
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