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tain seasons and localities. The "Sugar-cane Beetle" (Ligyrus 

 rugiceps Lee.) sometimes causes considerable injury to sugar- 

 cane and corn in the Southern States. It is shown in Fig. 104. 

 L. f.elictus Say is exceedingly common in many places. Its larva 

 feeds in rotten manure- and is frequently used as bait for fish. 



In British Guinea beetles similar to the Chalepus mentiond 

 above were so common near the fields of sugar-cane that it was 

 a punishment to sleep near fires started to keep away the 

 mosquitoes, and it was frequently a question which of the two 



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Fig. 104. — Lygyrus rugiceps, Lee. — After Division of Entomology, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



