DIBOLIA INTERMEDIA. 35 



pale tawny, or ochreous, yellow, with the eyes, the 

 scutellum, and a very fine marginal line at the suture 

 and sides of the elytra black; the antennae are pale 

 yellow at the base, and become piceous or black towards 

 the apex ; the tips of the tarsi are also piceous ; on the 

 under side, the head and the sides of the thorax are the 

 same colour as above, the other parts of the body are 

 black. The head is diffusely punctured at the base and 

 has an elevated longitudinal line between the antennae 

 and a transverse interrupted elevation on the front of 

 the forehead. The thorax is twice as broad at the base 

 as long, a little rounded at the sides and very indistinctly 

 punctured ; in some specimens there is a dark mark on 

 the disk. The scutellum is rounded at the apex and 

 impunctate. The elytra are irregularly and rather 

 closely punctured. The length of the body is 4 5 millm. 

 Ipkidea is closely allied to the genus Luperus, of which 

 three species are found rather commonly in England. 

 0. E. J. 



In Miss Glanville's notes this beetle attacks fruit 

 trees (apricot, &c.), swarming over them and devouring 

 leaves and fruit. Observed in Lower Albany, Salem, 

 Orange Grove, and Albany. 



For measures of prevention of injury from this insect, 

 details of its life-history are needed ; but (conjecturally) 

 shaking, or sweeping down the beetles when most torpid, 

 and destroying them, also finding where they hybernate, 

 and clearing these shelters, would be of use. 



FAM. HALTICID^E. 

 DIBOLIA INTERMEDIA, Baly. 



Dibolia intermedia, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, 

 p. 598. 



Dark Blue Flea Beetle. 



Ovate, very convex above ; upper side of a dark and 

 slightly metallic blue; under side black or piceous. 

 The head is very finely and sparingly punctured, with 



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