CIRCULAR No. 8, SECOND SERIES. 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
THE IMPORTED ELM LEAF-BEETLE. 
Galerucella luteola Mull. (Galeruca ranthomelena Schrank.) 
Fic. 1.—Galerucella luteola: a,eggs; b, larve; c, adult; e, eggs (enlarged) ; f, sculpture 
of egg; g, larva (enlarged); h, side view of greatly enlarged segment of 
larva; i, dorsal view of same; j, pupa (enlarged); k, adult (enlarged) ; l, 
portion of elytron of beetle (greatly enlarged). Irom Riley, in Ann. Rept. 
Dept. Agr. for 1883. 
GENERAL APPEARANCE AND METHOD OF WORK. 
The chief insect enemy of the elm:is the imported elm leaf-beetle, the larvze 
and adults of which frequently so disfigure the trees as to make them useless for 
shade and hideous rather than ornamental. The beetle—a small, yellowish- 
brown insect—appears first and fills the leaves with small irregular holes, while 
the following broods of slug-like yellow and black larvie skeletonize the leaves 
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