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  The 
  Smaller 
  Meadow 
  Grasshoppers. 
  

  

  Xiphidiuni. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  Xiphidimn 
  neino7-ale 
  Scudd. 
  were 
  taken 
  on 
  sugar 
  beets 
  

   in 
  Urbana 
  in 
  October, 
  1898, 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  X. 
  stricttwi 
  Scudd. 
  were 
  found 
  

   feeding 
  on 
  beets 
  July 
  26th 
  and 
  August 
  19th, 
  young 
  at 
  the 
  former 
  dates 
  

   and 
  adults 
  at 
  the 
  latter. 
  

  

  OTHER 
  LEAF-EATING 
  BEETLES.* 
  

  

  Clivina 
  impressifrons 
  Lee. 
  

  

  This 
  little 
  ground-beetle 
  about 
  a 
  quarter 
  

   of 
  an 
  inch 
  long, 
  recognizable 
  by 
  the 
  accom- 
  

   panying 
  figure, 
  (Fig. 
  60), 
  may 
  receive 
  mere 
  

   mention 
  as 
  a 
  beet 
  insect, 
  having 
  been 
  once 
  

   seen 
  by 
  us 
  in 
  small 
  numbers 
  enlarging 
  a 
  small 
  

   excavation 
  on 
  the 
  petiole 
  of 
  a 
  beet 
  leaf. 
  The 
  

   same 
  species 
  had 
  previously 
  been 
  seen 
  bur- 
  

   rowing 
  freely 
  into 
  seed 
  corn 
  in 
  the 
  ground. 
  

  

  The 
  Beet 
  Carrion-beetle. 
  

  

  sup 
  ha 
  opaca 
  Linn. 
  

  

  This 
  insect, 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  a 
  genus, 
  and 
  

   indeed 
  of 
  a 
  family, 
  nearly 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  feed 
  

   upon 
  decayed 
  animal 
  matter, 
  is 
  itself 
  a 
  vege- 
  

   tarian, 
  and 
  has 
  become 
  noted 
  in 
  Europe 
  as 
  

   perhaps 
  the 
  worst 
  insect 
  pest 
  of 
  the 
  beet 
  field. 
  

   It 
  was 
  brought 
  into 
  America 
  at 
  least 
  twenty 
  

   years 
  ago, 
  but 
  is 
  still 
  quite 
  uncommon 
  in 
  

   the 
  United 
  States. 
  It 
  was 
  re- 
  

   ported 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Horn 
  from 
  Cali- 
  

   fornia 
  in 
  1880, 
  and 
  in 
  1891 
  

   Prof. 
  Bruner 
  found 
  it 
  several 
  

   times 
  in 
  the 
  beet 
  fields 
  of 
  Ne- 
  

   braska. 
  In 
  1893 
  he 
  reported 
  

   again 
  that 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  several 
  

   times 
  taken 
  in 
  Nebraska 
  feeding 
  

   upon 
  beet 
  leaves. 
  In 
  England, 
  

   France, 
  and 
  Austria 
  large 
  num- 
  

   bers 
  of 
  the 
  larvse 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  

   appear 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   season 
  in 
  the 
  beet 
  field 
  eating 
  away 
  the 
  parenchyma 
  of 
  the 
  leaf, 
  usually 
  

  

  *The 
  flea-beetles 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  other 
  beetles 
  doing 
  a 
  similar 
  injury 
  to 
  the 
  beet 
  have 
  already 
  been 
  

   treated 
  on 
  pp. 
  112-128. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  60. 
  Clivina 
  itiipressi/rons. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  61. 
  The 
  Beet 
  Carrion-beetle, 
  Silpha 
  opaca: 
  

   I, 
  2, 
  young 
  larva; 
  feeding 
  on 
  beet 
  leaf; 
  3, 
  4, 
  larva;; 
  5, 
  

   adult 
  beetle 
  in 
  flight; 
  6, 
  adult 
  at 
  rest. 
  (From 
  publishers 
  

   of 
  Curtis's 
  "Farm 
  Insects.") 
  

  

  