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us. Its great destructiveness wherever it has established itself 

 among us, is one of the many attestations to the often-made state- 

 ment, that by far the larger number of our more injurious insect 

 pests have been introduced from Europe. 



Belongs to the Chrysomelidae. 

 It belongs to the Chrysomelidce, that large family of very bad 

 reputation on account of their leaf-eating habits. The beetle is a 

 small, yellow-legged, brown insect, having a broad dull-black stripe 



Fio. 29.— The Elm-leaf Beetle, Galeruca xanthomeljena, in its different stages. 



on each wing-cover toward its outer margin, and three black spots 

 upon the ochreous thorax. In size and general appearance it 

 resembles another well-known member of the family — the striped 

 cucumber beetle, Diabrotica vittata (Fabr.). The insect has been so 

 often described in its egg, larval and perfect stages in the Reports 

 and Bulletins of the Entomological Division of the Department of 

 Agriculture, that it does not seem desirable to repeat the details here. 

 Those who may desire detailed descriptions for the purpose of 

 identification or for scientific use, are referred to these publications 

 or to some other of those included in the bibliographical list accom- 

 panying this notice. 



The figure above given, illustrative of the insect in its several 

 stages^ which was presented in our fourth report and is herewith 



