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ment, in front of which is a narrow black dorsal line. Anal legs uplifted. Three 
lateral black lines close to each other and forming a broad dark wavy band. Base 
of all the legs black, but the legs themselves pale ; ground color of body deep pink 
flesh color. Length, 30 to 35 mra . 
13. The locust hispa. 
Odontota scutellaris (Olivier). Hispa suturalis Harris. 
Order Coleoptera ; family Chrysomelid^e. 
In July, blister-like spots appearing upon the leaves, within which is a small flat- 
tened, whitish worm, with three pairs of feet; a quarter of an inch long, tapering 
from before backwards, with projections along each side like the teeth of a saw ; re- 
maining a week in the pupa state within the leaf, about the middle of August it 
issues as a small flattened black beetle with the prothorax and wing-covers, except 
along their suture, tawny yellow. (Fitch & Harris.) 
Harris states that in Massachusetts these beetles may 
be observed the middle of June pairing and laying eggs 
on the leaves of the locust tree. 
While this species of leaf-mining beetle is met with in 
the New England States and New York, by information 
received from Kentucky it is at times quite injurious to 
locust trees in that State, but can always be kept under 
by hand-picking. 
Fjg. 134— Lo- 
cust Hispa— 
From Pack- 
ard. 
14. Agrilus otiosus Say. 
Order Coleoptera ; family Buprestid^:. 
Mr. W. L. Devereaux, of Clyde, N. Y., writes us that this beetle " is 
found in plenty in the beetle stage, feeding on freshly forming foliage, 
at the tips of new growths of the locust." 
15. Say 7 s weevil. 
Apion rostrum Say. 
Order Coleoptera; family Curculionid^e. 
From June until September, eating numerous small round holes in 
the leaves, a little black weevil with a slender projecting beak, its 
thorax with close coarse punctures and an oval or longitudinal inden- 
tation back of its center, and the furrows of its wing-covers with 
coarse punctures; its length. 0.09, and to the end of the beak, 0.12 
inch. (Fitch.) 
Dr. Harris states that the grubs of this little weevil live 
in the pods of the common wild indigo bush (Baptisia 
tinctoria), devouring the seeds. He adds : 
A smaller kind, somewhat like it, inhabits the pods and eats the seeds of the locust 
tree, or Bobinia pseudacacia. 
Fitch regards the insect as very variable, and as most probably de- 
structive to the seeds of both the plants here mentioned. 
FiG.135.-Say's 
weevil.— 
From Pack- 
ard. 
