THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 29 



pose by the lower jaws (jnaxillce) being prolonged into slender extensile 

 pilose setse, which form a sort of tongue analogous to the tongue of moths 

 and butterflies. 



The second of these enemies of the Codling moth is 



The Two-lined Soldier Beetle, (Telephorus bilineatus, Say). — This is a 



soft-winged beetle of the same general form of, and closely allied to, the 



t^io- ^•''^•] preceding — both species belonging to the Family 



^^\ /^ W^^ !^ Telephoridce. The TAvo-lined Soldier Beetle (Fig. 



\^f ^^w '8 1^ ^j) ^^^ brown-black wing-covers, and a reddish- 



SkP S yellow head and thorax, the latter having two 



^'^^ W short black longitudinal marks, from which the 



c ^ *a«ia*^ ^ ® insect takes its name. The underside is a pale 

 reddish-yellow, with a dusky band on the metathorax ; the antennae, feet, 

 shanks, tij)s of thighs and a band on the head, between the eyes, being 

 also dusky. This beetle makes its appearance much earlier in the season 

 than the- other, being found as early as April. It, also, seems to be princi- 

 pally a vegetable feeder, and is quite common with us crawling over the 

 leaves of a variety of trees, I have rej^eatedly jarred it down with the Cur- 

 culio catcher from Plum, Peach and Apricot, and Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., 

 says that it feeds, in the East, on the newly expanded leaves of the Birch. 

 Mr. C. E. Dodge, of AVashington, D. C, informs me that he has found it 

 eating into a Lepidopterous chrysalis, a trait which must be considered ex- 

 ceptional. 



The larva was unknown till last year, when Dr. Packard gave a tigure 

 and description of it, * without, however, giving any specific account of its 

 habits. I have bred the beetle from larvse found feeding on Apple worms 

 and afterwards nourished upon them ; and as the larva is quite frequently 

 met with under apple trees, among early wind-falls, we may conclude that 

 it has a partiality for the in-dwellers of this fruit; though it doubtless feeds 

 also upon other soft-bodied animals. It is more usually found on the surface 

 of the ground under the fallen fruit, stones, boards or other substances ; but 

 I have found it, as w^ell as the larva of the Pennsylvania species, up in the 

 branches, and on the hanging fruit of apple trees. 



Both these larvae are of a rich velvety -brown color, and that of the 

 Two-lined (Fig. 15, a natural size; h head and first two joints magnified) 

 differs from the Pennsylvania species in having more conspicuous black 

 spots along the body, and an interrupted white line along the middle of the 

 back. For the scientific reader I give below a technical description of it : 



The most important fact for the practical man, in connection with what 

 has been said, is, that both these soft-winged beetles — among Nature's 

 appointed checks to the increase of the Apple worm — were quite frequent- 

 ly found by nje among the insects in the bottles suspended among apple 

 trees ; thus showing that we may do more harm than good with such bottles. 



* First Aim. Rep. on the Inj. and Beneficial Insects of Mass. , pp. 26-38. 



