INSECTS Al"l-K(.Tl.\t; I'AKK AM) WOOD LAN 1) IKEKS 



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tulata Fabr. Mr 1-!. 1'. ^'all^)uzt■(• of HuHalo, \vhi> kiiulK- tU^lcniiiiK-il (tur 

 specimens, states that this spccit-s ina\' lie rec()_i,niizccl l)y tlu- short, hroail 

 head, truncate at the apex, with tin- apical sinus nearly trans\(,-rsc. The 

 surface is tinrly ami coarsely punctured and ornaincmcd in phiccs hy groups 

 of lary;e, black punctun-s ; the sitlis of the jironotum hefijre the sinus are 

 strongly arcuated and arnutl with close rey^ular teeth ; the second joint of 

 the antennae is much shorter than the third, and tb.e rostrum is hniL^^er, 

 usually nachiui;' the third xentral segment. He 

 states th.at this Is a comparativeh' rare species, 

 which he has seen only from the eastern I'nitetl 

 States, his material showing a range from southern 

 New ^'ork to Florida. Messrs Walsh and Riley 

 record the insect froni Mannibal Mo. in 1869, at 

 which time it was consitlered beneficial. Its dis- 

 tribution has been gi\en b\' L'hler as Colorado, 

 Texas and a large jiart of the I'nited States east 

 of the Mississippi river. .Mr C. H. 1. Townsend 

 lists it from Kansas, ami Professor Osborn states 

 that it is common iii Iowa. I)r Smith also lists 

 this insect from a numb'.n^ of New Jersey locations and from Staten 

 Island. 



Habits. There are several records of this species occurring on apjile- 

 trees in considerable numbers, and Messrs Riley and Howard cite a case in 

 \'irginia, where this insect attacked a new growth of appletrees in the 

 month of May. It is there known as the "large chinch bug," antl many 

 twigs and limbs were said to have been killed by the insect. These gentle- 

 men add that the adults occur under bark in midwinter, and that the eggs 

 and young larvae have been found on pea vines and willow. 



Professor Webster also records a case where this insect killed the 

 shoots on some young appletrees in May 1894, at Owensville O. This was 

 on the farm of Mr Lowell Rauderbush,wh() wrote Professor Webster that 

 he had carefully watched the insect in the summer and found that it also 



