214 A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS INSECTS. 



Injury: Suck juices from foliage; injure value of tobacco leaf. 



Description: Adults tiny white flies. 

 KiRKALDY, G. W. Hawaii Bd. Comni. Agr. and Forestry, Bull. 2. 

 Targioni-Tozzetti, Ad. Animali ed Insetti del Tabacco, 1891, pp. 246-249, fig 



Catorama tabacl Gu(5rin-Meneville. 



(Tobacco Beetles. Anobiidse; Coleoptera.) 



Hosts: Stored products. 

 Injury: Attacks dried tobacco. 

 Description and hiolpgy: Adult beetle oA-ate-discoidal, convex, brown, covered witl 

 whitish pubescence, about 5 mm. long. Larva similar to that of Lasioderma. 

 Distribution: Europe. 



Targioni-Tozzetti, Ad. Animali ed Insetti del Tabacco, 1891, pp. 92, 93. 



AgriotesUneatus Linnaeus. 

 (Tobacco Wireworm. Elateridse; Coleoptera.) 



Hosts: Tobacco, grain, potatoes, beets, peas, clover, cabbage, hops, corn, carrots 

 lettuce, peach, etc. 



Injury: Larvae tunnel the roots and sometimes stems. 



Description and biology: Adult a snapping beetle 7-8 mm. long, brown with ariseout- 

 pubescence; second and fourth elytral intervals blackish; antenna?, anterior margin, 

 and posterior angles of prothorax reddish brown. Larvx elongate, chitinous wire- 

 worms; feed in the roots and stems of plants and cause much damage. 



Distribution: Europe, Asia, Africa. 



Targioni-Tozze™, Ad. Animali ed Insetti del Tabacco, 1891, p. 81, figs. 30, 31. 

 SoRAUER. P. Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten, 3d ed., 1913, vol. 3, p. 482, fig.' 295c 



Agriotes pilosus Lacordaire. 



(Tobacco Wireworm. Elateridse; Coleoptera.) 



Host: Tobacco. 



Injury: Larvae tunnel the plants. 



Description and biology: Adult a snapping beetle, black, 12-14 mm. long. Larva 25 

 mm. long, chitinous, wireworm, feeds in the roots and stems. 

 Distribution: Bessarabia, Portugal. 



LiNDEMAN, K. VON. Die Schadlichsten Insekten des Tabak in Bessarabia, 1888, 



Mo.scou. 

 Targioni-Tozzetti, Ad. Animali ed Insetti del Tabacco, 1891, p. 82. 



Athous niger Linnseus. 

 (Tobacco Wireworm. Elateridse; Coleoptera.) 



Hosts: Tobacco, beets. 



Injury: Larva tunnel the plants. 



Description and biology: dull, snapping beetle, shining black with cinereous 

 pubescence; length 11-12 mm. Larva 18-20 mm', long; a Avireworm which feeds in 

 the roots of tobacco and otlier plants. 



Distribution: Europe. 



Lindeman, K. von. Die Schadlichsten Insekten des Tabak in Bessarabia, 1888, 



Moscou. 

 Targioni-Tozzetti, Ad. Animali ed Insetti del Tabacco, p. 79. 



