336 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



APPLE. LIMBS. 



25. Spangled tree-bug, Arma hradeata, new species. 



Like the preceding and of tlie same size, but darker colored, 

 and having in addition to the brassy green dots of that species 

 one on each anterior angle of the thorax, two on the middle of its 

 anterior edge, and two others back of these last, with several 

 small irregular greenish black spots on the scutel and wing covers. 

 Kare. Met with in July. 



26. Spined tree-bug, Arma spinosa, Dallas. 



Like the foregoing, but smaller and destitute of the brassy green 

 dots; a dusky brown spot on the membranous tips of the wing 

 covers: beneath with a row of black dots along each side of the 

 middle, and a large round spot on the middle of the last segment; 

 thighs with one or two black dots near their tips. Length 0.42 

 to 0.52. During summer and autumn common on apple trees 

 throughout the United States. Very similar to the Modest tree- 

 bug, No. 101. 



Beetles eating the leaves. 

 Rose bug, see No. 50. 



27. Cloaked Chrtsomela, Cr/i/pfosceZiscrj/pficwS; Say. (Coleoptera. Chrys- 

 ortfelidse.) 



A thick cylindrical beetle, with its head sunk into the thorax 

 and the thorax narrower than the body; pale ash gray from being 

 entirely covered or cloaked with short incumbent whitish hairs; 

 the closed wing covers showing a small right angled notch at the 

 tip of their suture; scutel dusky. Length 0.32. Mr. Say met 

 with this insect in Missouri, and my specimens are from the same 

 vicinity, gathered by Wm. S. Robertson, who informs me that it 

 eats oak leaves, but seems to prefer those of the apple tree, on 

 which it is found in abundance. 



Worms eating the leaves. 



Probably a greater variety of worms are able to sustain them- 

 selves upon the leaves of the apple than upon those of any other 

 tree. Some of these will be numerous during one or two seasons 

 and will then scarcely be seen again for several years, whilst of 

 others a few will be met with almost every year. Some of them 



