Plate XLV 

 Prairie Species 



Fig. 1. Western Corn Root-worm beetle. Biabrotica longicornis. En- 

 larged. 



Fig. 2. Margined Blister-beetle. Epicauta marginaia. 



Fig. 3. Southern Corn Root-worm beetle. Biabrotica 12-punctata. En- 

 larged. 



Fig. 4. Bill-bug, SpJienopJiorus venatus. 



Fig. 5. Striped Blister-beetle, Epicauta vitiata: a, female beetle; &, 

 eggs; c, young (triangulin) larva; d, second or caraboid 

 stage; e, contracted scarabaeoid stage, natural size: /, 

 scarabseoid stage; g, coarctate larva, or winter stage. 

 Chittenden, Bull. Bur. Ent. IT. S. Dept. Agr. : b-g, after 

 Riley, Trans. St. Louis Aead. Sci.) 



