BEETLE LARVAE OF THE SUBFAMILY GALERUCINAE 



B}^ Adam G. Boving 



Senior Entoniolotjist, Bureau of Etitomology, United States Department of 



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INTRODUCTION 



The present pajxn- is the result of a continued investigation of the 

 Chrysomelid hirvae in the United States National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. Of the subfamily Galerucinae ^ belonging to this family 

 the larvae are preserved in the Museum of the following species : 



Monocesta coryli Say. 



Trirhabda canadensis Kirby. 



TrU'habda hrevicollis LeConte. 



Trirhabda nitidicollis LeConte. 



Trirhabda tomentosa Linnaeus. 



Trirhabda attenuata Say. 



Oalerucella nymphaeae Liiniaeus. 



Oalerucella lineola Fabrleius (from Euroiie). 



Galerucclla sagittarUu' Gylleuhal. 



Oalerucella luteola Miiller. 



Galerucclla sp. (from Nanking, China). 



Galcrucella vibvrni Paykull (from Europe). 



Oalerucella decora Say. 



Oalerucella notata Fabricius. 



Oalerucella cribrata LeConte. 



Monoxia puncticolUs Say. 



Monoxia consputa LeConte. 



Lochmaca capreae Linnaeus (from Europe). 



Qaleruca tanacett Linnaeus (from Europe). 



Oaleruca laticollis Sahlberg (from Europe). 



Oalcruca, pomonae Scopoli. 



Sermylassa halensls Linnaeus. 



Agelastica alnl Linnaeus.^ 



1 The generic and specific names of tlie North American larvae are as listed in C W. 

 Leng's " Catalogue of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico, 1920," with corrections 

 and additions as given in the "supplement" to the catalogue published by C. W. Leng 

 and A. J. Mutchler, 1927. The European species, not introduced into North America, 

 are named according to the " Catalogus Coleopterorum Europae, second edition, 1906," 

 by L. V. Heyden, E. Rcitter, and .7. Weise. 



2 It will be noticed that in the enumeration above no species of Dinhrlica and Pliyllo- 

 brotica are mentioned. The larvae of those genera were considered by tlie present author 

 as Halticinae larvae [Boving, Adam G. Description of larvae of the genera Diabrotica 

 and Phyllobrotica, etc., Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 29, 1927, pp. 193-205.1 



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