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coxae, except posterior tibiae and tarsi, yellow; abdomen 



reddish beyond the first segment. Length 10 mm 



ocellatus 

 Median fovea open and elongate; ocellar basin not sharply 

 denned; body black, with apex of the clypeus, genae, three 

 spots about ocelli, a line from the inner orbits to the eyes, 

 a spot on the vertical furrows, apical third of the antennae, 

 tegulae, scutellum, legs below coxae, except the posterior 

 tibiae, pale yellow; abdomen rufous beyond the first seg- 

 ment. Length 775 mm rubi 



P. semicinctus (Norton). Lyda semicincta Norton. 

 P. ocreatus (Say). Lyda ocreata Say. Howard, Insect 

 Book, pi. xiv, Figs. 4 and 9. Connecticut (Norton) ; New- 

 Haven, 21 May, 1910 (A. B. C). Larva a solitary feeder on 

 Corylus. 



P. transversus MacGillivray. 



P. rufocinctus (Cresson). Lyda rufocincta Cresson. 



*P. persicus MacGillivray. Yalesville, Meriden, Walling- 

 ford, Middlefield, Durham, North Haven, New Haven, Hamden, 

 Cheshire, Farmington (B. H. W.) ; Yalesville, June (W. E. B.). 

 Larva feeds on peach. 



For a full account of this insect and its appearance as a pest, 

 see 7th Report State Entomologist, in Report for 1907-8 of Con- 

 necticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, p. 285. 



*P. dentatus MacGillivray. Hamden, 24 May, 1910, New 

 Haven, 30 May, 1911 (B. H. W.) ; Wallingford, 8 June, 1911 

 (B. H. W. and D. J. Caffrey). Larva feeds on blackberry. See 

 Report of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station for 1912, 

 p. 236. 



P. ocellatus Rohwer. 



P. rubi Rohwer. Larva feeds on blackberry. 



Anoplolyda Costa. 



Key to Species. 



1. Pleurae with a large oblique pale stripe 2 



Pleurae black 4 



2. Abdomen rufous at least beyond first segment 3 



Abdomen black, except a rufous spot on the first and the 



most of the second and third segments of the tergum; 



