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I now recall that are at all likely to be mistaken for the useful 

 lady-birds are shown in figure 59. The left hand beetle is one of 



Figure 59 • 



Epllachiia borealis.'Yh. Diabro.tUa i2-pu>ictata, P"ab. 



tiie lady birds, but it does not, as all the rest, feed uponinsects, l)e- 

 ing a vegetable feeder. Its name is EpilacJma borealls, Th. It 

 is, so far as I know, the only one of the many lady-birds which 

 feeds upon vegetables. It is larger than the other species given, of 

 a reddish yellow color with seven black spots on each wing-cover. 

 The head and thorax are colored like the wing-covers. It feeds 

 upon nearly the same plants as do the common striped cucumber 

 beetles. Another beetle resembling rather closely the lady-birds 

 is Diabrotica i2-punctata, Fab., which eats cucumber, squash 

 and other leaves. This is shown at the right in figure 59. A 

 group of flies known as Syrphus flies, one of which with its larva, 

 both enlarged, is shown in figure 60, are useful in destroying plant 



Figure 60. 



Syrphus Jly. 



