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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



CRJOCERIS Geoff. 



Fig. 132. — The common asparagus beetle. 



Fig. 133. — The 12-spotted asparagus beetle : <z,adu!t; b, larva ; c, d, segments of same : all enlarged. 



O. asparagi Linn. Common wherever asparagus is cultivated, throughout 

 the season and often injurious : an imported species. 



If the larvee occur on young plants brush them to the ground on the middle 

 of a hot sunny day. On larger plants apply fresh dry-slaked lime early, so as 

 to reach them when they are a little moist. In bearing fields let trap shoots 

 grow until covered with eggs and then destroy them : keep this up throughout 

 the cutting season and this will reduce the other broods. Destroy all volunteer 

 asparagus. 



C. 12-punctata Linn. Also 

 an introduced species 

 which has been working 

 up from Maryland and 

 has now reached the red- 

 shale line across the 

 State : it is also a feeder 

 on asparagus throughout 

 the season, though not as 

 yet so abundant as the 

 preceding. The same 

 measures may be em- 

 ployed against it. 



Fig. 134. — Common asparagus beetle: b, egg; c, young 

 larva ; d, full grown slug or larva ; e, pupa ; 



all enlarged. 



ANOMCEA Lac. 



A. laticlavia Forst. Merchantville. Berlin, VI, 11, 25 (W). Woodside, 

 Orange Mts., g. d. (Bf), Ft. Lee on Desmodium (Bt), adult feeds freely 

 on bush clover and locust (Ch). 



COSCINOPTERA Lee. 



C. dominicana Fabr. Newark, g. d (Bf), Hudson Co. (LI), DaCosta (Li), 

 Clementon (W), Ft. Lee (Bt), on Sumach (Ch). 



