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calcium carbonate. Uracanthus acutus Blackl. injures peaches, 

 apricots and plum in Australia. Steirastoma depressum L., the 

 cacao beetle, is the most serious pest of cacao in the West Indies, 

 and the Guianas the larvse living under the bark of the tree, and 

 also boring the heart wood. Diploschema rotundicolle Serv. bores 

 the orange in Brazil and is evidently a serious enemy of this plant. 

 Apriona rugicollis Chevr. is a mulberry pest in Japan. The females 

 oviposit on the branches, the larvse boring into the wood. Three 

 years are required for the life cycle. 



Chrysomelidce. 



In this family are quite a number of injurious forms in different 

 parts erf the world. The group ranks close to the Curculionidse in 

 economic importance. Lema flavipes Suffr. is injurious to rice in 

 Japan, in both the larva and adult stages. Hispa callicantha Bat. 

 also injures rice in the same country, both adults and larvse feed- 

 ing on the foliage. Crioceris merdigera L., cogeneric with our 

 asparagus beetles, is distributed over all Europe and ig a decided 

 pest of lillies in France, both the larvse and adults feeding on the 

 foliage, the former protected by their excrementitious covering. 

 Pachnephorus bretinghami Jac. and P. impressus Ros., replace, in 

 India, Myochrous in America. They are quite injurious to the 

 young shoots of sugar cane and to cereals. Chrysochrous chinensis 

 Baly injures the sweet potato in Formosa. Galerucella tenella L. 

 is common over Europe and attacks the strawberry, though not as 

 yet important apparently. Galeruca semipullata in Australia, 

 infests wild and cultivated figs, the dirty yellow larvse feeding on 

 the leaves. Chcetocnema concinna Marsh, of Europe, is a pest of 

 hops, the beetles defoliating the plants, attacking also the shoots. 

 Chcetocnema basilis Baly is a rice flea beetle in India, and other 

 species injure various crops. Haltica ampelophaga Leesb., the 

 grape flea beetle of Europe is one of their more important vineyard 

 pests. H. indigacea Illig. in Cape Colony, is injurious to buds and 

 foliage of fruit trees in spring. 



Hispa cenescens By. is a very important rice pest in India. H. 

 modesta We. has been reared from sugar cane in the same country. 

 Leptispa pygmcea Baly attacks rice in Malabar. Brontispa frog- 

 gatti Sharp, the palm leaf Hispa, injures the foliage of its host 

 plants in New Britian and Solomon Islands generally. 



Scelodnota strigicollis Mots, is a pest of grapes in India. Its 

 habits, are thought to be like those of our Fidia viticida. Odon- 

 tionopa sericea Gyll., in South Africa, injures buds and leaves of 

 fruit trees in the spring. 



Aulacophora hilaris Bvd. is a serious pest of cucurbits in Aus- 

 tralia, where it is known as the banded pumpkin beetle. This, or 



