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Anomala lucicola (Fabr.). 



The Light-loving Grapevine Beetle, 



(Ord. Colkoptera: Fain. Scaeab^id^e.^ 



Fabricius: Supp. Ent. Syst., 179S, p. 132, no. 61-5, Melolontha mcerens; no. 



6'3-7, M. lucicola; no. 66-7, M. atrata; Syst. Eleath., ii, 1801, p. 174, 



no. 82, moerens; no. 85, lucicoli; no. 86, atrata. 

 Melsheimer: in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1846, p. 141 (describe! as A. 



pinicola). 



Fitch: in Count. Gent., xiv, 1859, p. 171 (descriptions of varieties); 3d Rept. 



Ins. N. Y., 1859, p. 85 (mention); 4th Rept. do., 1859, p. 61 (as A. pin- 

 icola feeding on pine). 



Harris: Ins. Inj. Veg., 1862, p. 34 (description, on grapevine). 



Glover: in Rept. Commis. Pat. for 1861, 1862, p. 602, figs. 39, 40 (features of 

 larva and imago); in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1868, 1869, p. 88, 

 fig. 74 (mention). 



Walsh: in Pract. Entomol., i, 1866, p. 101 (mention, on grape). 



Kirkpatrick: in Ohio Farmer, Jan. 11, 1868 (injury to grape). 



Le Baron: 1st Rept. Ins. 111., 1871, pp. 54-56 (injury to grape); 4th Rept. do,, 

 1874, p. 89 (mention). 



Thomas: 6th Kept. Ins. 111., 1877, pp. 105, 106 (description and habits). 



Saund 3RS : Ins. Inj. Fruits, 1883, p. 284 ; fig. 294 (features, habits, remedies). 



Horn: in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xi, 1884, pp. 162-3 (description). 



Lintner: in Count. Gent., liii, 1888, p. 565 (features, injuries, remedies); 5th 

 Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1889, p. 305 (abstract of prec). 



Hamilton: in Insect Life, iv, 1891, p. 132 (pinicola=lucicola). 



Smith: in Insect Life, v, 1892, p. 95 (larval development). 



Wickham: in Canad. Entomol., xxvi, 1894, p. 260 (in Canada: diagnostic 

 characters). 



Comstocks: Man. Study Ins., 1895, p. 562 (brief notice). 

 Chittenden: in Insect Life, vii, 1895, p. 3S6 (mention). 



Several examples of this little Scarabaeid, Anomala lucicola, were 

 received from Highstown, N. J., on July 13th, taken from grapevines 

 on which they were feeding voraciously. 



Exception has been taken to the specific name, meaning light-loving, 

 given it nearly a century ago, for although the beetle, like some of the 

 flower beetles, may love to spread its wings in the su alight, yet its 

 feeding is believed to be done mainly under cover of darkness. 



General Features of the Beetle. 



It resembles in form the well-kno»vn June-bug, Lachtosterna fusca, 

 to which it is nearly related, but is of a considerably smaller size, 

 measuring only from three-tenths to four-tenths of an inch in length. 



