APPENDIX II 



INSECT PESTS 



By H. SOMBES BlVEKS] 



The following insects are the most injurious to fruit 

 trees, though some parts of the country, particularly 

 those with a heavy clay soil, seem to be almost wholly 

 free from their attacks. 



I. CoLEOPTEKA (Beetles). 



The June Bug (FhyUoperfha horticola) occasionally, 

 when in great abundance, does much damage to the 

 fruit trees, devouring their blossoms and leaves. The 

 larva, a fat whitish grub, with the last segment of its 

 body larger than the rest, lives underground, where it 

 feeds on the roots of grasses and strawberries. The 

 perfect insect is about half an inch long, and has 

 reddish-brown elytra and dark-green head and thorax. 



The Green Eose Chafer (Getonia (mrata). The 

 larva of this species is like the last, only larger, and has 

 the same food. The pupa is enclosed in a large cocoon, 

 covered on the outside with pellets of earth. The beetle 

 is about an inch long, of a beautiful metalHc green, with 

 whitish spots and streaks running across the elytra, and 

 looking like cracks. It attacks the strawberry blossom, 



