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Scarabceidce. These common beetles are brown in color, 

 oval in shape and from one-half to three-quarters inch 

 in length. They appear in early spring and fly to the 

 lights in great numbers. They do considerable harm to 

 vegetation by eating foliage, in the adult stage, but it 

 is as larvae that they are the greatest nuisances. The 

 common white-grub or "mully-grub" is the larval form 

 of these insects. (See page 236, Part II.) 



Rose-chafers or Rose-bugs are among the smaller Scar- 

 abseids. They are rather slender for this family and have 

 comparatively long legs armed with many stout spines. 

 Their larvae resemble white grubs, but are smaller and 

 flatter, although similarly curved. These larvae live in the 

 soil, where they do some damage, but the species com- 

 mits the most of its depredations in the adult stage. The 

 beetles appear about the time the roses bloom and injure 

 them by eating both leaves and flowers. They are also 

 pests of the grape, of apple and of a large number of our 

 cultivated plants, mostly trees and shrubs, and will even 

 eat the leaves of sassafras, which is generally avoided by 

 insects. Rose-chafers are hard to kill, as arsenicals act on 

 them slowly, and they may do most of their damage be- 

 fore the poisons cause their death. No remedy, other 

 than spraying, has proven satisfactory. 



Related to the rose-chafers are several species of Flower- 

 beetles. One of these is green and brown in color and is 

 called, in many parts of the South, the June-bug. It 

 may more properly be termed the Southern June-bug. 

 The flower beetles are more flattened than the other spe- 

 cies we have considered. They are pointed toward the 

 head and bluntly rounded at the posterior end. They 

 frequent flowers and some of them fly with a loud buzzing 

 noise and are so called Bumble-beetles. Another com- 



