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The body is subcylindrical, moderately wrinkled and segmented, and 
sparsely covered with short hairs. The. head is only moderately chiti- 
nous, and the first thoracic and last or anal segment are apparently not 
at all, or at least only slightly, chitinized. The anal segment, shown, 
dorsal view, at e, is furnished with a small proleg, but there are no 
visible denticles at its apex. The leg is best recognized by reference 
to figure 18, d. 
The pupa is white, like the larva, and also resembles somewhat that 
of Diabrotica, especially in the anal hook-like appendages. (See /.) 
PUBLISHED OBSERVATIONS ON HABITS AND INJURIES. 
References to the habits of Hpitrix parvula are somewhat limited, 
considering its distribution and abundance, which may be accounted 
for from the fact ofits being a southern species. It occurs in the north, 
but its injuries appear to be confined to the more southern States. 
In the third volume of the American Entomologist (p. 123), published 
in 1880, this insect is mentioned under the name of Hpitrix hirtipennis 
Melsh. as doing “‘ considerable damage to tobacco plants on the Bahama 
Islands by completely riddling the leaves, and thus rendering them 
unfit for use.” In the same article attention is drawn to serious com- 
plaints of the ‘‘flea-bug,” by which we may recognize this species, in 
the tobacco-growing sections of Kentucky. In many parts of that 
State young tobacco plants were ‘literally cleaned off,” and farmers 
were burning and sowing new beds. A decade later Mr. H. Garman 
gave an account of this species and its injuries in Kentucky in the 
Second Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of that 
State for 1889 (pp. 30,31). He observed the beetles on tobacco, and 
stated that the small holes which they gnawed in the leaves in some 
instances marred their value seriously. The same writer briefly men- 
tioned injury by this species to potato (Buil. 61, Ky. Agl. Expt. Sta., 
p. 16). 
In 1893 Dr. C. V. Riley stated, in a short note on this heetle, that it 
“lid considerable damage to tobacco plants grown at the | Maryland 
Experiment] station by eating small holes in the leaves, giving them an 
unsightly appearance, which naturally reduced materially the value 
of the crop” (Bull. 25, Md. Agl. Expt. Sta., p. 89). The same year Mr, 
F. M. Webster briefly said of this species (Insect Life, Vol. VI, p. 186) 
that “the adults worked considerable injury to tobacco in southwestern 
Ohio by eating numerous holes in the leaves.” 
Some notes published recently would appear to indicate that this 
beetle, although injurious, is not wholly useless, though the damage 
which it causes probably exceeds any benefit derived through its work. 
At a meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club, held January 10, 
1896, Mr. S. H. Seudder exhibited the work of what was presumed to 
be ELpitrix parvula on tobacco leaves, received from Mr. 8. E. Elmore, 
of Hartford, Conn. According to the latter, this insect ‘eats a small 
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