CHAPTER XII 

 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO TOBACCO * 



The Tobacco Flea-beetle f 



THE Tobacco Flea-beetle is one of the important pests of that 

 plant throughout the Middle States, being particularly injurious 

 to young plants. The beetles damage the leaves by eating small 



FIG. 158. Tobacco flea-beetle (Epitrix parvula): a, adult beetle; b, larva, 

 lateral view; c, head of larva; d, posterior leg of same; e, anal segment, 

 dorsal view; /, pupa a, b, f, enlarged about fifteen times; c, d, e, more 

 enlarged. (After Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



holes in the upper or under surfaces, or clear through them, so 

 that when badly eaten the leaves look as if they had been peppered 

 with shot. The little beetles which do this damage are hardly 



* See L. O. Howard, Farmers' Bulletin 120, U. S. Dept. Agr., The Prin- 

 cipal Insects Affecting the Tobacco Plant. A. C. Morgan, Circular 123, 

 Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agr; Yearbook, U. S. Dept. Agr., 1910, 

 pp. 281-296. 



t Epitrix parvula Fab. Family Chrysomelida. 



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