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THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 
L. col laris Say. Newark, g. d., rare on thistle (Bt). 
L. so I an i Fabr. Anglesea, one specimen (W). 
L. trilineata Oliv. The “old-fashioned potato beetle,” throughout the 
State, V-VIII sometimes locally common; usually checked by the 
applications against the “Colorado beetle,” and in most places almost 
exterminated. 
CRIOCERIS Geoff. 
• C. asparagi Linn. Throughout the State wherever asparagus grows, from 
early spring to late fall, in some stage; hibernates as an adult. An 
imported species, often very injurious. On young plants brush the 
slugs from the shoots to the ground on the middle of a hot sunny day. 
On larger plants apply dry hydrate of lime with a powder gun very 
early when the plants and slugs are a little moist. Destroy all volun¬ 
teer asparagus; in bearing fields let trap shoots grow until covered 
with eggs, then cut and destroy them. 
C. 12-punctata Linn. Also an introduced asparagus feeder, more recently 
arrived, not so common and not so widely distributed in the northern 
half of the State as the preceding. 
Fig. 137.—The 12 -spotted asparagus beetle: a, adult; b, larva; 
c, d, segments of same; all enlarged. 
