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SIXTH ANNUAL BEPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The beetle is so variable in tlie disposition antl size of the red-brown marking's 

 tliat many of its more marked varieties have been described as distinct species, as the 

 following synonymy by Mr. Kogers, which I quote from the Proceedings of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Science (1866, pp. 29 and 30), will show : 



Blepharida rhois. — Oval, convex, ferruginous ; head and thorax yellow; elytra 

 Avich eleven rows of large punctures, irregulai'ly mottled, sometimes vittate with 

 yellow and ferruginous \ margin always broadly yellow ; antenna) black, base piceoug. 

 JLength .25-30. 



Chrysomela rhois Forst. Cent. Ins. 1, 21. Hiibn. Naturf 24, St. 40. Oliv. Enc. 

 Meth., 5, 720. 



Altiea Virg'mica Frolich, Naturf. 26, 129, 54. 



Haltica rhois lUig. Mag. 0, 161. 



Chrysomela stoUda Fabr. Ent. Sj'S. 1, 318. Syst. El. 1, 435. Oliv. Enc. Meth. 5, 700. 



Haltica stolida Illig. Mag. 6, 161. 



Chrysomela vieticulosa. Oliv. Ins. 91, 531, tab. 6, fig. 91. Locality— Middle States, 

 Southern States, Nebraska and Upper Mississippi. 



.Jiggers" or IIakvest-mites : — Leptus irrilans Rik-y (to tlie 

 right), and L. Aniericanus Riley (to the left) , 



