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and China asters at Charleston Four Corners, Montgomery co. ? 

 the beetles appearing to prefer the half grown aster blossoms* 



Fig. 20 Striped blister 

 beetle, enlarged (original) 



Fig. 21 Black blister beetle, enlarged (original) 



The margined blister beetle, Epicauta cinerea Forst., is 

 another common and occasionally a very annoying species. 



Owing to the fact that several species of these beetles are 

 known to be beneficial in the grub stage, preventive rather than 



Fig. 22 Margined blister beetle, enlarged (original) 



destructive measures have uniformly been urged for their 

 suppression. 



Pale striped flea beetle, Systena taeniata. This little 

 pest was very common and quite injurious in an eight acre bean 

 field at South Byron, Genesee co. The field had been sown the 

 previous fall to wheat, which was destroyed in early spring by 

 Hessian fly, and then it was again plowed and planted with 

 beans. The weeds growing in the grain undoubtedly supplied 

 the flea beetles with shelter and provender, and, when they were 



