130 INSECTS INFESTING THE PEACH TREE. 



CHAPTER LXIX. 



The Peach Aphis. (Cal.) 



(Alyzus persicse. — Siilzer.) 



Order, Hemiptera ; ^ u. -i * 

 Sub-o^der, Homoptera;! ^^°^^^>'' ^^^'^^^^^- 



[Living on the underside of the leaves and on the new 

 growth of peach, prune, and nectarine trees, causing the leaves 

 to curl and thicken by puncturing them with their beaks and 

 extracting the sap; small, black or reddish-brown plant-lice.] 



The wingless females are rusty red ; the winged females are 

 black or greenish-brown. 



The winged males are a bright yellow, with a transverse 

 brown streak on the thorax, and a few streaks of the same 

 color on the abdomen. 



Remedies. — When the tree is dormant, spray with No. 11 

 or 12 ; when in leaf, use Nos. 4, 5, or 7 — 5 or 7 preferable. 



CHAPTER LXX. 



The Indian Cetonia. 



( Cetonia inda. — Linnaeus. ) 



Synonym. — Euryomia inda. 



Order, Coleoptera ; Family, Cetoxid.e. 



[Eating into peaches, pears, and grapes; a coppery-brown 

 beetle, about six lines or half an inch long, sprinkled with 

 brown dots, and thinly covered with yellowish hairs.] 



Fig. 108. — Indian Cetonia — color, coppery-brown. Fig- lOS- 



The larval and pupa stages of this insect are un- 

 known, but it probably lives in the ground during 

 the larval state, feeding upon the roots of plants. 



The beetles (Fig. 108) make their appearance in 

 the Autumn and again in the Spring, passing the 

 Winter in some sheltered situation. 



