INSECT ENEMIES. 131 
ATTACKING THE FLOWERS. 
22. Tuer PEAR-TREE BuiisteR BEETLe (Pomphopea 
enia, Say). This beetle is a little over half an inch 
long, with head and thorax punctated, and a little 
hairy. The roughened wing cases are marked with 
two slightly elevated lines. The color is a greenish 
blue. They eat the entire flower except the stamens. 
They sometimes eat the tender leaves at the end of the 
limbs. Besides the quince, they eat the blossoms of 
the plum, cherry, ete. 
The remedy is to jar them down early in the morning, 
and destroy them before the sun warms them to activity. 
23. A BEETLE just about the size of the asparagus beetle, 
Fig. 117. Fig. 118. 
PEAR-TREE BLISTER BEETLE. CHRYSOMELIANS, 
but with yeilow-striped wing-covers like the cucumber 
beetle, is a Chrysomelian that sometimes riddles the petals 
of the quince. It eats the buds before the petals have ex- 
panded. They feed singly or in groups, and when dis- 
turbed, hastily fly away. I first found them on the 
quince in the spring of 1887. 
ATTACKING THE FROIT. 
24, THe Curcuiio (Conotrachelus Crategi, Walsh). 
—This beetle is an indigenous insect. Its home is 
the wild haw, from which it has come to be very 
injurious to the quince. It is a little larger than the 
plum curenlio. The color is ash-gray, mottled with 
ochre-yellow. It has a dusky, almost triangular spot at 
