LAMELLICORN-BEETLES. 



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tain seasons and localities. The "Sugar-cane Beetle" (Ligyrus 

 ntgiceps Lee.) sometimes causes considerable injury to sugar- 

 cane and corn in the Southern States. It is shown in Fig. 104. 

 L. relictus Say is exceedingly common in many places. Its larva 

 feeds in rotten manure, and is frequently used as bait for fish. 



In British (luinea beetles similar to the i'lialcpiis mentiond 

 above were so common near the fields of sugar-cane that it was 

 a punishment to sleep near fires started to keep away the 

 mosquitoes, and it was frequently a question which of the two 



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Fijj. 104. — Lygyrus rugiceps, Lee. — After Division of Entomology, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



