LEAF-BEETLES. 



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as fifteen or twenty grubs have been found about the roots of a 

 single plant. 



The remedies suggested for the Paria fire applicable to all. 

 Prof. Forbes makes the following very practicable suggestion : 

 "To 'rid a new field of strawberry plants it would be wise to allow 

 the new runners to set, in case the new plants should be suspected 

 of containing such root-worms, and then to destroy the recently 

 planted stools from which they sprang, leaving the field stocked 

 only with new stools, formed since the plants were set out." 



Fig. 147. 



-Graphops pubescens, Melsh, — After Forbes. 



Fig. 149.— Nodoaota 

 puncticollis. Say.— 

 After Di ision of 

 Rntomolojjy, U. S. 

 Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



THE CLOAKED CFIRVSOMELA. 



(Glyptoscelis crypticus Say). 



This is another beetle very similar to Graphops pubescens, 

 but according to Prof. Saunders it devours the foliage of the 

 apple-tree, as well as that of the oak. It is of a thick, cylindrical 

 form, about one-third of an inch long, with its head sunk into 

 the thorax, and the thorax narrower than the body. It is of a 

 pale ash-gray color, entirely covered with short whitish hair. 

 The closed wing-covers have a small notch at the top of their 

 suture. At the junction of the wing-covers with the thorax there 

 i^ a dusky spot. This insect is represented in Fig. 148. 



