196 DISEASES OF THE COTTON PLANT. 
and of a brown color ; the Mnd-legs are very long, brown ; 
the ends of the tibse and tarsi black. 
From what has been seen of the habits of this insect, 
and its comparative scarcity, I should not regard it as 
injurious to the crop, and therefore I would class it 
amongst those insects frequenting the cotton, but not in- 
jurious to it. 
Twelve-spotted GtAlekeuca. — {Galereuca duodecim- 
punctata.) 
A small leaf-beetle is often found in the young flowers 
of the cotton, where it gnaws holes in the petals. This in- 
sect is about three-tenths of an inch in length ; the head is 
black ; the thorax orange green ; the wing-cases greenish 
yellow, with six black spots on each ; the upper part of 
the thighs is green, and the rest of the leg dark-colored, or 
nearly black. 
Among the remedies suggested for destroying the 
striped cucumber-beetle [Galereuca vittata), Dr. B. S. Bar- 
ton, of Pennsylvania, recommends " sprinkling the vines 
with a mixture of red pepper and tobacco." Ground 
plaster and charcoal dust have also been recommended, 
as well as watering the vines with a solution of an ounce 
of glauber salts in a quart of common water, or tobacco 
water. An infusion of hops, elder, or walnut leaves, is said 
to be very useful ; as, likewise, sifting powdered soot 
upon the plants when they are wet with the morning dew. 
Others have advised sulphur and Scotch snutF to be applied 
in the same way. 
Dr. Barton likewise states, that " as these insects fly by 
night as well as by day, and are attracted by lights,* burn- 
ing splinters of pine knots, or of staves of tar-barrels, stuck 
in the ground during the night around the plants, have 
