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juices until the leaves wither. Numerous specimens examined 

 during the last five years. Orono, Me., F. L. Harvey. 



Distinguishing characters: — This species has the same habits 

 as Fitch's 6\ hortensis and is equally as injurious. For a long 

 time we took it for that species. It has the dark body and 

 lighter head, Pegs, antennae and elater of the above. It is, 

 however, readily distinguished by the purple of the head, 

 antennae, terminal segments of the body and elater, the obscure 

 white markings on the body and especially by the nine joints to 

 the terminal segment of the antennae. There being in S. 

 hortensis six segment to the terminal joint, according to 

 Fitch and McGillivray — but really seven if Fitch's figure is cor- 

 rect. The only species we know of having been found in 

 America with nine joints to the terminal segment of the anten- 

 nae is S. roseus, Packard, from which our species differs in the 

 color of the body, size and habits. 



Remarks: — The young of this species are lighter colored than 

 the adults, appearing brownish to the naked eye and often show 

 only eight joints to the terminal segments of the antennae. The 

 older specimens acquire the blue black color and reflections. 

 The marbled appearance of the body cannot be seen by the 

 naked eye or a hand glass readily and the casual observer 

 would say the body was plain, blackish. The whitish markings 

 can be readily seen by magnifying 75 diameters. They appear 

 as though they were under the skin and show through it. Alco- 

 hol and glycerine specimens show the markings plainly. 



By careful examination of alcoholic specimens we found there 

 was a median dorsal brownish stripe extending from the head 

 half the length of the body and ending in a clover leaf white 

 spot. There are three obscure transverse bands made up of 

 white spots, giving the surface a mottled appearance. The 

 anterior band from dorsal view shows two white spots each side 

 the median line. The second stripe bears five oblong spots each 

 side of the median line and lower on the sides an S shaped mark- 

 ing composed of a chain of white blotches. Still lower on the 

 side and anterior to the first and sloping forward is another S 

 formed by a chain of spots, the lower loop of the first S mak- 

 ing the posterior loop of the second. See Fig. 4. 



