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or sand and kerosene. Ground tobacco is a favorite repellant, and land 
plasters often replace lime. On small fields netting covers are used 
to protect the plants, 
and occasionally only 
an excess of seed is 
planted so that some 
plants may escape in¬ 
jury. 
D. atripennis Say. Ft. 
Lee (Sf); Hudson Co. 
(LI); Caldwell (Cr). 
PHYLLQBROTICA Redt. 
P. discoidea Fab. Ft. Lee 
—Hi ; Hudson Co. 
(LI); Newark, Orange 
Mts. (Bf); Woodbury, 
Brigantine, Orange 
Mts. VI-VII (W). 
P. decorata Say. Arlington VI, on “Scutellaria 
P. vittata Horn. Fort Lee (Sf). 
Fig. 141.—The striped cucumber beetle, Diabrotica 
vittata: a, adult; b, larva; c, pupa; d, side 
view of anal segment of same. 
(Sf). 
LUPERODES Mots. 
L. meraca Say. Greenwood Lake VI, 21 (Lv); Ft. Lee, Orange Mts. VI, 
, 10 (Bt); Newark (Bf); on wild rose (Hn) and many other plants 
(Ch). 
L. cyanellus Lee. Staten Island (Lg); occurs with the preceding, and 
may be confused with it in collections. 
CERATOMA Chev. 
C. trifurcata Forst. Throughout the State VI, VII; common on peas, 
beans and leguminous plants generally. 
BLEPHARIDA Rog. 
With this species begins the series of forms characterized by enlarged 
hind femora and a well-developed power of leaping, which gives them the 
common and general term “flea-beetles,” 
B. rhois Forst. Throughout the State VII; more common in the southern 
districts; the larva, covered by excrement, feeds on sumac. 
HYPOLAMPSIS Clark. 
H. pilosa Ill. Madison VIII (Pr); Orange Mts. (Bf); Jamesburg VI (Jl); 
Merchantville III, Westville VII (W); Newtonville VII (Brn); along 
shore, Brigantine to Cape May V-VII (div). 
PACHYONYCHUS Chev. 
P. paradoxus Mels. Atlantic City (Castle); lives on “Smilax” sp. (Sz). 
