. 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. 1170 FAMILY LIII.—C tlRYSOMELiri/K. 2167 (6907). Galerucella decora Say, Ijong's Second Exped., II, 1824, 294; ibid. I, 195. Oblong, scarcely wider behind, subdepressed. Dnll yellow or dusky brown clothed with fine, short, yelluw, silken pubescence; autenntE wholly piceous or with the basal joints partly dull yellow; legs pale. Thorax twice as wide as long, narrowerin front, sides curved, hind angles slightl
. 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. 1170 FAMILY LIII.—C tlRYSOMELiri/K. 2167 (6907). Galerucella decora Say, Ijong's Second Exped., II, 1824, 294; ibid. I, 195. Oblong, scarcely wider behind, subdepressed. Dnll yellow or dusky brown clothed with fine, short, yelluw, silken pubescence; autenntE wholly piceous or with the basal joints partly dull yellow; legs pale. Thorax twice as wide as long, narrowerin front, sides curved, hind angles slightly promi- nent, base oblique each side; disk with a vague median impression and a large, shallow one each side, marked with piceims. Elytra scarcely widened behind, surface coarsely, deeply and rather closely punctate. Length mm. Lake County; scarce. .Uay 30. Occurs on willow. Has the same range as cacicollis and, like it, probably confined to the northern third of the State. 2168 (6912). Galerucella ldteola Mull., Melanges Soc. Roy. Turin, 1706, III, 1ST. Oblong, subdepressed. Dull olive or greenish-yellow, finely pubescent; head with a black spot on vertex and another between the eyes; thorax A\ith three black spots; elytra with a stripe on sides and a narrow, short line on middle nf base, black; abdomen piceous. Thorax more than twice as wide as long, slightly narrowed in front; disk with an oblis neai- Baltimore about is:',7. Since then it has gradu- ally sjiread southward and westward and reached Harrison County, Indiana, ab,,ut ll)(, probably by way of the Ohi., River. It is abundant on th,. ,.hus of Lac'onia Elizabeth and Corydon in that county, Irom which the specimens in the collection were obtained. The beetle hibernat,.s as ima-o be- neath bark, in cracks of wood and other shelter, and emerges to feed on the first opening buds in spring. The egos are laid in clusters of five to 20 or more on the lower side of the elm leaves and hatch m about a w
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