. An address upon farm pests, including insects, Fungi, and animalcules . Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fig. Fig. BLISTERING BEETLES. CantharidcB. These beetles are also great eaters of the several years they have done great damage in New England,but only in special localities. They have not become most injurious are the striped Cantharis, Lytta vittata(Fabr.) (Fig. 7), the margined Cantharis, Cantharis marginata(Olivier) (Fig. 8), the ash-colored Cantharis, Zy/Z^z ««(?r(?rt; (Fabr.)(Fig. 9, a, male), and the black Cantharis, Lytta marina (Leconte)(Fig. (), b) ; c a

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. An address upon farm pests, including insects, Fungi, and animalcules . Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fig. Fig. BLISTERING BEETLES. CantharidcB. These beetles are also great eaters of the several years they have done great damage in New England,but only in special localities. They have not become most injurious are the striped Cantharis, Lytta vittata(Fabr.) (Fig. 7), the margined Cantharis, Cantharis marginata(Olivier) (Fig. 8), the ash-colored Cantharis, Zy/Z^z ««(?r(?rt; (Fabr.)(Fig. 9, a, male), and the black Cantharis, Lytta marina (Leconte)(Fig. (), b) ; c and d show the magnified antennae of the male andfemale, rendering it easy to distinguish them. These beetles,while they will make short work of the potato-leaves, whenabundant, are not very fastidious about their food. They willeat beets as soon as potatoes, and also pig-weed, or almost anykind of green leaves when the potatoes and beets fail. There is another species, being a species of oil-beetle, Meloe 14 angusticoHis (Fig. lo), which when plenty are a great foe to po-tatoes, tomatoes, bee

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