﻿REPORT 
  OF 
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  STATE 
  ENTOMOLOGIST 
  249 
  

  

  WiCKHAM 
  : 
  in 
  Canad. 
  Entomol., 
  xxviii, 
  1896, 
  p. 
  74 
  (mention). 
  

   Chittenden: 
  in 
  Year 
  Book 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  Agricul. 
  for 
  1896, 
  1897, 
  pp. 
  

  

  349-352, 
  fig. 
  89 
  (general 
  account). 
  

   Skinner: 
  in 
  Entomolog. 
  News, 
  viii, 
  1897, 
  p. 
  230 
  (in 
  localities 
  in 
  Pa). 
  

  

  The 
  common 
  asparagus 
  beetle, 
  Crioccris 
  asparagi 
  (Linn.), 
  has 
  long 
  

   been 
  known 
  to 
  most 
  growers 
  of 
  this 
  plant 
  on 
  and 
  near 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast 
  

   in 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  Delaware 
  and 
  Maryland, 
  while 
  recently 
  it 
  has 
  extended 
  

   its 
  range 
  inwardly, 
  and 
  has 
  appeared 
  in 
  various 
  localities 
  in 
  eastern, 
  

   central 
  and 
  western 
  New 
  York, 
  and 
  has 
  entered 
  Ohio. 
  This 
  destructive 
  

   pest 
  is, 
  however, 
  not 
  the 
  only 
  asparagus 
  beetle 
  now 
  established 
  within 
  

   the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  Twelve-spotted 
  Asparagus 
  Beetle 
  in 
  Monroe 
  County. 
  

  

  This 
  near 
  relative 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  asparagus 
  beetle 
  was 
  found 
  infesting 
  

   an 
  asparagus 
  bed 
  in 
  Brighton, 
  Monroe 
  county, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  in 
  comparatively 
  

   small 
  numbers 
  in 
  1893 
  on 
  the 
  farm 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Silas 
  J. 
  Robbins. 
  Early 
  in 
  

   May 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  year 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  12-spotted 
  variety 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  

   among 
  the 
  hundreds 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  common 
  species. 
  The 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  month, 
  however, 
  Mr. 
  Robbins 
  wrote 
  : 
  " 
  Yesterday 
  the 
  asparagus 
  

   beetles 
  came 
  out 
  in 
  full 
  force. 
  In 
  many 
  places 
  quite 
  as 
  many 
  red 
  ones 
  

   \i2-pimctata\ 
  as 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  kind." 
  The 
  appearance 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  in 
  

   such 
  large 
  numbers 
  the 
  second 
  year 
  of 
  its 
  observed 
  presence 
  would 
  indi- 
  

   cate 
  that 
  the 
  climatic 
  conditions 
  of 
  its 
  newly 
  adopted 
  home 
  were 
  very 
  

   favorable 
  to 
  its 
  multiplication. 
  

  

  This 
  insect 
  has 
  evidently 
  prospered 
  in 
  this 
  new 
  locahty 
  as 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  J. 
  

   Chism, 
  of 
  Brighton, 
  informed 
  me 
  in 
  Sept., 
  1897, 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  very 
  injurious, 
  

   more 
  so 
  than 
  C. 
  asparagi. 
  It 
  had 
  spread 
  from 
  the 
  farm 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Robbins 
  

   to 
  others 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  and 
  was 
  regarded 
  as 
  a 
  serious 
  pest. 
  The 
  beetle 
  

   was 
  said 
  to 
  eat 
  into 
  the 
  growing 
  shoots 
  more 
  than 
  does 
  the 
  common 
  

   species, 
  and 
  thus 
  render 
  them 
  unfit 
  for 
  market. 
  

  

  Description 
  of 
  the 
  Insect. 
  

  

  The 
  beetles 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  are 
  easily 
  distinguished 
  from 
  the 
  more 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  form. 
  They 
  may 
  be 
  recognized 
  by 
  the 
  twelve 
  black 
  spots 
  on 
  their 
  

   orange-red 
  elytra. 
  The 
  thorax 
  is 
  a 
  deeper 
  orange 
  red. 
  The 
  eyes, 
  antennae, 
  

   tips 
  of 
  the 
  femora 
  and 
  tibiae, 
  the 
  tarsi, 
  and 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  ventral 
  

   surface 
  are 
  black. 
  In 
  form 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  stouter 
  and 
  larger 
  insect 
  than 
  asparagi. 
  

   At 
  a 
  little 
  distance, 
  they 
  resemble 
  somewhat 
  closely, 
  it 
  is 
  said, 
  the 
  ripen- 
  

   ing 
  asparagus 
  berry. 
  

  

  