. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BLISTEE BEETLES TX KAXSAS. 15 Egg and Young Larva. The egg has not l)een secured or the growing .stages of the larva recognized. COAKCTATK LaKVA. Tlie average of 10 coarctate hirvse was mm. in length by mm. in width. They are reddish brown, but not so dark as those of E. cinereu. and the lateral ridges are present and distinctly angular. Thiki) I^arva. The third larvjie are 7 to 8 nun. long by 2.;") to mm, wide. In shape, color, and general appear- ance they resemble those of Mdcrolxiais iinnidciihi
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BLISTEE BEETLES TX KAXSAS. 15 Egg and Young Larva. The egg has not l)een secured or the growing .stages of the larva recognized. COAKCTATK LaKVA. Tlie average of 10 coarctate hirvse was mm. in length by mm. in width. They are reddish brown, but not so dark as those of E. cinereu. and the lateral ridges are present and distinctly angular. Thiki) I^arva. The third larvjie are 7 to 8 nun. long by 2.;") to mm, wide. In shape, color, and general appear- ance they resemble those of Mdcrolxiais iinnidciihita. PtJPA. A description of the ])Upa has never been secured. EpICAUTA I'ENXSTLVAXTCA De G. Adttlt. Epicauta pennsylvanica (tig. IS) is the smallest of the black blister beetles that occur in Kansas. Of IS specimens, the length varied from to 14 nmi., averaging mm., and the width from 2 to 4 mm., averaging mm.; shape rather slender; color dull black. Fig. —The black l)lis- ter beetle (E pioauta ) : Adult. Enlarged. (Chittenden.) The egg that of immaciihitd, but is nuich smaller. Tkiungulin Larva. Length of triungulin larva (tig. 19) about mm.; width about mm., widest through tlie head about midway of its length, which is just behind the eyes, and tapering to the prothorax, into which it telescopes slightly; color, brownish yellow, translucent. In shape and general appe:irance it resembles the triungulin of ilacrolxmis hninaculata. None of the other larval stages have been secured, even the coarctate larva of this species having escaped recognition. life history and habits. Epicauta maculata Say. OviPOSITION. While on the staff of the Kansas Experiment Station the writer ob:r;erved oviposition by a fe- male of Epicauta maculata^ as well as by a female of Maeroha^Ls 'Dnntaculata. Both were working at the same time, bein»j discovereil only a few yards apart in the edjie of a field. The process was identical w
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