LOMG HORNED BEETLES. 



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THE APPLE LKPTURGES. 



(Lept urges facetits Say). 



Ihis insect, though very small, as seen in the line under the 

 illustration, (Fig. 131), is a very handsome, slender beetle, in 

 some cases much less than a quarter of an inch long; it is of a 

 pale ash-gray color, with a purplish tinge. The rather, long 

 and hairy feelers are yellowish-brown, and are ringed with black- 

 at the tips of each joint. The smooth wing-covers possess 

 an irregular dark spot on their anterior portion, and a broad 

 black band across the posterior part, just leaving the tips pale- 



Fig. 130. — Leptostrlus Fig. 131. — Leptvrges face- 

 aculiler, Syy. After f us. Say. After Saunders. 

 Saunders. 



Fig. 132. — Oncideres cin- 

 g-alatas.Saj. AfterKiley. 



gray ; other blackish spots and streaks are found elsewhere. 

 These beetles occur most numerously during late June and in 

 July, when they are engaged depositing their eggs on the bark 

 of the branches, which the young larvse enter, and in which they 

 undergo their transformations before the next summer. 



The larva has the usual form of such borers, is about a 

 quarter of an inch long, slender, with the anterior segments 

 enlarged and the abdomen rather blunt. It is entirely covered 

 with fine and short hairs. 



Many other beetles, which are all of about the same size, 

 similar color and markings, are more or less injurious to fruit 

 trees. By beating the small dead twigs of some trees, as "the 

 oak, chestnut, hickory and others, large numbers will fall into an 



