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THE REPORT OF THE 



No. 1» 



Grape-Vine Sphinx (Darapsa myron). Fig. o2. 



'III UIIffVlMY Iff ^^ 





Fig. 52. Grape-vine Sphinx caten>illai'. 



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Fig. 53 Trumpet Gi ape Gall 



7. Several other sphingid larva; feed on the leaves of the Grape. 



8. Black beetle eating the tissues on the upper surfaces of the leaves, and discoloring tkem. 



Red Headed Systena (Systena frontalis). 



9. Producing reddish, elongated, conical galls on the leaves. 



Trumpet Grape- Gall (Vitis viticola), Fig. 53. 



10. Large reddish yellow beetle with six black spots on wing-cover eating holes in leaves. 



Spotted Pelidnota (Pelidnota punctata), see Fig. 7. 



D Attackin<i the Fruit : 



1. Ripening fruit discolored, and 

 burrowed by a whitish caterpillar. 

 Grape-berry Moth (Eudemis 

 botrana). Fig. 54. 



2. Eating holes in ripe 

 fruit, beetle large, 

 yellowish, hairy. 



Biimble -fiower 



Beetle (Euphoria *"'«• •"^^- Jhe (ivape-ben-y moth : a much masnified ; b full-grown 

 . , . ^T-,. ^ .._ larva ; c spot 'vhere larva entered ; (Mnjured berry. 



inda), Fig. 55. 

 3 Eating holes in young fruit, a long Jegged Ijeetle. 

 Eoae-Chafer (Macrodactylus subspinosus). 



Fig. 55. 



Humble-flower 



beetle. 



Strawberry Insects. 

 A. Attacking the Roota : 



1. A pinkish caterpillar boring irregular channels through the crown and larger roots, 



causing them to wither and die. 



Strawberry Root-Borer (Anarsia lineatella). 



2. A white grub boring downwards from the crown. 



Strawberry Crown-Borer (Tyloderma fragdnae), Fig. 56. 



3. A large white grub eating the roots. 



May Beetle (Lachnosterna fusca). 



