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THE ELM-LEAF BEETLE. 



(^Galenicella luteola Miill.) 



A European insect which reached this country about seventy-five 

 years ago. It is generally distributed over Massachusetts, though 

 it may perhaps rarely prove to be a serious pest in certain of the 

 higher and colder portions of the state. It passes the winter as the 

 adult beetle in attics, unused chimneys, outhouses, barns, etc., and 

 about the time the elm leaves develop in spring, leaves its winter 



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Fig. I. Elm-Leaf Beetle, a, eggs ; b, larvje ; c, adult ; e, eggs ; g, larva ; j, pupa ; k 

 beetle; a, b and c, natural size ; e, g, j and k, much enlarged. From U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



quarters for the trees. At such times, the beetles often gather on 

 the windows of houses mutely pleading to be let out, and causing 

 housekeepers to fear that they will have an army of carpet beetles, 

 or some other household pest, to fight. Flying to the trees, the 

 beetles eat irregular holes entirely through the leaves and lay their 



