SYNOPSIS OF THE LAMIIX/E. 149 



[Clothed with dense white pubescence, antennjc and let^s with 

 gray; three broad brown stripes extending from the anterior margin 

 of the thorax to tlie tip of the elytra, one sutural, the others mar- 

 ginal ; a bar sometimes unites the marginal and sutural stripes behind 

 the base. This sj)ecies, when in the larval state, is very destructive 

 to apple and some other fruit trees ; also to crab a\)\)\e (Pt/rus coro- 

 iiarki), mountain ash {Pynis arnericana), Juneberry {Amelanchier) 

 and hawthorn {Cratiegm.'] "Ham." 



S. cretala Newm., 1838, Ent. Mag. v. 395. 



Lengtli \2 20 mm. = .48 .80 inch, ifafti^rt^.— Massarlmsetts, Canada, Michigan, 



Wisconsin, Iowa. Illinois, Pennsylvania. 

 [Clothed with brown pubescence ; two broad vittte on the thorax 

 and a narrow discal line, white ; a broad elongate strijje of the same 

 color emarginate before and behind one-third behind the base of each 

 elytron extending beyond middle and close to suture, also a smaller 

 spot before apex ; the sides of the abdomen and meso- and metaster- 

 nal side })ieces are also white. This species breeds in the limbs of 

 Craia'(jm like the following.] " Ham." 



S. fayi Bland, 1863, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, ii, 320; Can. Ent. xx, «. 



Length 10-12 mm. = .40-.48 inch. Jlnhitaf. — Canada, New York, New Jersey. 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio. 



[This species resembles crefata, is of the same color, but smaller ; 

 the side vittse of the thorax extend on the elytra at base, but the 

 discal line is wanting ; the anterior elytral spot is reduced to a cy- 

 lindrical line and sei)arated from that of the opposite side by the 

 suture. The % is much smaller, with the white spots nuich reduced 

 or wanting, and with the whole of the underside frequently gray. 

 This and rrdafd breed in the limbs of CretieguK, and are to be found 

 about the second week of June.] " Ham." 



S. vest.ita Say, 1824, Long's 2d Exj). p. 290; Lee, ed. i, 193; (ttkiiisoni Curtis, 

 Brit. Ent. p. 27.") ; Lee, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. ser. 2d, ii, 163. 

 Length 12-19 mm. =; .48 .76 inch. Hnbitaf. — Canada, Vermont. New Hamp- 

 shire, Massachusetts. New York. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wiscon.sin, Iowa, 

 Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey. 



[ A fine insect, den.sely clothed with light olivaceous pubescence ; 

 elytra each with three small round denuded spots, two of which ai-c 

 placed obliquely before and one more distant behind the niiddlc; 

 these sjKjts are not always present. This insect breetls in the linden 

 ( Ti/ia), the larva sometimes proving very destructive to them when 

 set out as shade trees. The beetle it.self does not injure the foliage, 

 as is sometimes stated in agricultural cntoinology.] " Ham." 



TRANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIII. MAY, 1896. 



