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A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands, 



This beetle is minute; length about 1.5 mm , or about -fa inch; color 

 light brown with a darker brown band across the elytra. The larva 

 is slender, white, with a yellow head and brown jaws; length 3.5 mm . 

 It feeds on the roots of Jamestown-weed and other allied plants, and 

 sometimes attacks common potatoes, causing them to have a rough 

 or pimply surface. The pupa is formed just under the earth about 

 the roots of the plants on which the larvae feed. 



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Figure 163.— Strawberry Flea-beetle (Maltica ignita); a, imago, x±}.>; b, eggs, 

 nat. size ; c, larva ; d, segment of larva, much enlarged ; e, larva, dorsal 

 view, enlarged; /, pupa, x 4. Figure 164.— Tobacco Flea-beetle (Epitrix 

 parvula) ; a, imago, x 10 ; b, larva, x 8 ; c, head of larva ; rf, posterior leg ; 

 e, anal segment; /, pupa. Figure 164o.— The same; imago, more enlarged; 

 after Chittenden. 



Cerambycids ; Long-homed Beetles; Capricorn Beetles; Long- 

 horned Wood-borers; Girdlers, etc. 



Several undetermined species were obtained. The most interest- 

 ing is a plain yellowish brown or chestnut-colored species, with a 

 long, rather slender, cylindrical body, 12-18 mm long, 

 an American species of twig-pruners {Blaphidon). 



It resembles 



Scarabmids ; Lamellicorn Beetles; Tumble-dungs ; Lung-beetles; 

 Chafers ; May-bugs^ etc. 



Several undetermined species of this family were obtained. The 

 most common of the larger forms is the " Hard-back," which was 

 perhaps an indigenous species. See p. 7*4. 



Hardback. (Ligyrus gibbosus Dej.=Z. juvencus (Oliv.) Burm.) 

 Figure 168a. 

 J. M. Jones, L876, states that this is the "most common beetle on 

 the islands." It was also recorded by Heilprin (Berm. Is., p. 02) as 



