790 A. FE. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
This beetle is minute; length about 1.5™™, or about ;4, inch; color 
light brown with a dankab brown band across the elytra. The larva 
is slender, white, with a yellow head and brown jaws; length 3.5™™, 
It feeds on the roots of Jamestown-weed and other allied plants, and 
sometimes attacks common potatoes, causing them to have a rough 
or pimply surface. The pupa is formed just under the earth about 
the roots of the plants on which'the larvee feed. 
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Figure 163.—Strawberry Flea-beetle (Haltica ignita); a, imago, x 414; b, eggs, 
nat, size; c, larva; d, segment of larva, much enlarged; e, larva, dorsal 
view, enlarged; f, pupa, x4. Figure 164.—Tobacco Flea-beetle (Hpitrix 
parvula) ; a, imago, x10; 6, larva, x8; c, head of larva; d, posterior leg ; 
e, anal segment; f, pupa. Figure 164a.—The same; imago, more enlarged; 
after Chittenden. 
Cerambycids ; Long-horned Beetles; Capricorn Beetles; Long- 
horned Wood-borers ; Girdlers, ete. 
Several undetermined species were obtained. The most interest- 
ing is a plain yellowish brown or chestnut-colored species, with a 
long, rather slender, cylindrical body, 12-18™™ long. It resembles 
an American species of twig-pruners (Hlaphidon). 
Scarabeids ; Lamellicorn Beetles ; Tumble-dungs ; Dung-beetles ; 
Chafers ; May-bugs, ete. 
Several undetermined species of this family were obtained. The 
most common of the larger forms is the “ Hard-back,” which was 
perhaps an indigenous species. See p. 784. 
Hard-back. (Ligyrus gibbosus Dej.=L. juvencus (Oliv.) Barge 
Figure 168a. 
J. M. Jones, 1876, states that this is the “most common beetle on 
the islands.” It was also recorded by Heilprin (Berm. Is., p. 92) as 
