. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. Report of the State Entomologist. 203 In consideration of the above authorities and circumstantial state- ments, we are compelled to admit that the Megilla does, occasionally at least, become injurious to corn. It is known to occur in great abundance, at times. I have seen it during the month of August col- lected by hundreds around the base of some honey-locusts {Gleditschia triacanthos), between the trunk and ground, at Middleburgh, N. Y. It has also been reported as found " Ijang i
. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. Report of the State Entomologist. 203 In consideration of the above authorities and circumstantial state- ments, we are compelled to admit that the Megilla does, occasionally at least, become injurious to corn. It is known to occur in great abundance, at times. I have seen it during the month of August col- lected by hundreds around the base of some honey-locusts {Gleditschia triacanthos), between the trunk and ground, at Middleburgh, N. Y. It has also been reported as found " Ijang in piles under the leaves and grass about the roots of apple trees, and always upon the south side of the ; {American Entomologist, i, 1869, page 186.) Its Injuries to Corn not of Frequent Occurrence. At times of such abundance as above, it may be driven for sus- tenance to other than its ordinary food. Should this prove to be the explanation of its occasional foray upon our cornfields, we should not find fault with it, if by way of dessert it should indulge moderately in corn-in-the-milk, after all the substantial viands of its accustomed bill of fare, as plant-lice, chinch-bugs and Colorado jDOtato-beetles in the egg, have been consumed. The vast amount of service that it renders us entitles it to all the praise that we have hitherto bestowed upon it, and all the protection that we have endeavored to extend to it previ- ously to the discovery of this one bad trait in its perhaps otherwise faultless habits. The Beetle Described. That similar attacks upon corn by this insect may be recognized and reported, the following description of it is given, together with an enlarged representation of it and of its earher stages : The beetle is one-fourth of an inch long, more elongate-oval than the lady- bugs usually are, and of a peculiar red color, often called pink. The head is black, with the exception of a median red line. More ^^^^^ than half the area of the ^^%f~~ thorax
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