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turns for food to a great variety of garden and other plants. Various 

 authors report that corn is one of the plants thus injured, and it is one 

 of a number of plants upon the roots of which the larvae are known to 

 feed. A correspondent at Elgin, Illinois, once sent ils specimens of the 

 beetle with the statement that they were found on corn. 



Fig. 181. The Rose-chafer, Macrodactylus SKbspinosus: a, female; b, fore part of 

 male, side view; c, tip of male from above; d, same from below; e, pupa; /, larva. En- 

 larged as indicated. (Chittenden, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.) 



The beetles (Fig. 181, a-d) bear some resemblance to June-bugs. 

 They are about a third of an inch long, rather slender and long-legged, 

 and dull yellowish brown. The larvae (Fig. 181,/) are subterranean, 

 and also resemble those of June-bugs, — the common white-grubs, — but 

 are much smaller and more slender. 



Anomala undulata Mels. 



This small leaf-chafer (Fig. 182) 

 is not uncommon locally in Illinois 

 and throughout the country gener- 

 ally. It is recorded as infesting a 

 variety of crop plants, often to their 

 serioiLS injury. A correspondent of 

 Home and Farm, writing from 

 Chapel Hill, Arkansas, to the editor 

 (who fon\^arded the specimens to 

 me for determination), reports that 

 these beetles were feeding on the 

 corn silk, cutting it off as if with a 

 knife. Twelve of them were found 

 in a single ear, burrowing down 



Fig. 182. Anomala undulata. Six times 

 natural size. 



