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INSECTS AFFECTING CLOVER. 



noticed in New York State, and as yet has not spread 

 to very many other states, although it is likely to do so. 

 Dr. C. V. Riley, who first worked out the Ameri- 

 can life-history of this species, has admirably illus- 

 trated this insect and its injury at Fig. 126. The 

 adult (i,j, k) is a dark brown snout-beetle, not quite 

 half an inch long, which feeds greedily upon the 



Fig. L26. Clover Leaf-beetle: 6, 6, b, 6, larva feeding; /. cocoon; i, beetle- 

 all natural size ; a, egg; c, young larva ; g, mesnes of cocoon ; h, pupa; 

 k.j, beetle, back and side views— magnified. 



clover leaves at night, remaining concealed among 

 the rubbish on the soil surface during the day. The 

 female beetles deposit their eggs in irregular clusters 

 in the hollow leaf |or flower stems or between the 



