INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE LINDEN. LAG 
pairs of smaller abdominal ones. Low down, on the sides of the second and third 
thoracic segments a curvilinear black spot. Length, 8-9™™, 
Pupa.—Body pure white; prothoracic shield, with long scattered hairs around the 
edge and in two groups on the back; antennwe curving around between the eyes and 
jaws, and with the ends resting on the tips of the elytra. The insect undoubtedly 
descends into the earth to pupate. 
The beetle.—Head, prothorax, and under side of body dark coppery green, with scat- 
tered pits. Antenne palpi and legs pale pitchy yellow; elytra coppery green and 
whitish, the green forming a broad median stripe, sending prolongations outwards 
toward the middle of the elytra, the first pair of branches nearly parallel to the band, 
the second becoming more and more at right angles to the band, the last short and broad 
near the tip of the body. Eleven rounded dark-green spots in the whitish field; the pair 
near the shoulders gourd-shaped; two of the spots behind the middle of the elytra 
touching each other. The pits or punctures near the sutures of the elytra arranged 
in three lines parallel to the median line of union of the body; elsewhere they are 
arranged irregularly. ; 
The following insects also occur on the linden: 
4. Selandria tilie Norton (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., i, 250). 
5. The swallow tail, Papilio turnus Linn (Ent. Soe. Ontario). 
6. The semicolon butterfly, Grapta interrogationis (Fabricius). 
7. Ceratomia amyntor Uiibn. (Lintner i, 188). 
8. Acronycta hastulifera (Sm. Abb.), Lintner (Contr. iii, 158). 
9. Apatela americana Harris. 
10. Sciapteron robinie H. Edwards. Destructive to Populus alba in 
Nevada (Edwards, Bull. Buffalo Ent. Soc., iii, 72). 
11. Hugonia alniaria Hiibn. (Harris). 
12. The elm measuring worm, Hugonia subsignaria (Hiibner). 
13. The maple moth, Acronycta americana Harris. 
14. The leaf-miner beetle, Hispa quadrata Fabr. Mines the leaves. 
(Chambers.) 
15. Prionus brevicornis Fabr. In logs of bass wood (Smith, Rep. Ent. 
Conn. 1872, 346). 
16. Parandra brunnea Fabricius (in stumps, Schaupp, in letter). 
17. The Linden dipterous gall-fly, Cecidomyia (tiliw) verrucicola Osten- 
sacken. Massachusetts and New York (Ostensacken). 
18. Lithocolletis lucetiella Clems. Larve in tentiform mine on under 
surface of leaves. (Chambers.) 
19. Lithocolletis tiiwella Chamb. Larvie in tentiform mine on upper sur- 
face of leaves. (Chambers.) 
20. Coleophora tiliefoliella Clems. Larva only known. It lives in a 
case and feeds on the under side of leaves. (Chambers.) 
21. Cecidomyia citrina O. Sacken. 
22. Lachnus longistigma Monell. St. Louis, Mo. 
23. Drepanosiphum tilie Koch? (Monell-Thomas).® 
