INSECTS AFFECTING PARK AND WOODLAND TREES 



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This, one of oirrmedium sized to large lady beetles, 

 was taken in small numbers on hard pine at Karner 

 in 1901. One specimen was captured June 4 and 

 another July 8. The species may be recognized by 

 its head being nearly black, or with very few light 

 markings on it and more specially by the nearly uni- 

 form yellowish red or yellowish brown wing covers. 



Neomysia pullata Say 



Fig. 159 Neomysia pullata 

 enlarged (original) 



Hyperaspis binotata Say 



A minute, black, red-spotted lady beetle less than V% inch in length, 

 was met with on scrub oak at Karner, May 14, 1902. It was bred in some 

 numbers October 3, 1902 from a branch of scrub oak badly infested with a 

 species of Lecanium found at North Chatham N. Y. July 6. It probably 

 preys on such soft-bodied insects as it can overcome as well as on scale 

 insects. The species appears to be rare in this State. It has been 

 recorded by Casey from New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, 

 W isconsin, and Dr Smith lists it from New Jersey, where it occurs on pine 

 trees in spring and on willows in summer. It probably appears in I )r 

 Hamilton's list of southwestern Pennsylvania, Dury's list of Cincinnati - 

 species, and in Ulke s list of forms occurring in the District of Columbia, 

 under the name of H. si gnat a Oliv. 



Limonius quercinus Say. This beetle was beaten in June from scrub 

 oak at Karner. 



A slender, yellow-headed, blackish and yellowish beetle occurs in early spring on 

 low shrubs and trees. 



Hydnocera verticalis Say 



This species was reared from a larva found in an oak gall at 

 Normanskill near Albany, May 10, 1902. 



