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3. The six-spotted metachroma. 
Metachroma 6-notata Say. 
Order Coleoptera ; family Chrysomelid^e. 
Feeding on the leaves in July, an oblong pale shining beetle, .15 
long, narrower anteriorly and punctured, the punctures in rows on the 
wing-covers becoming very faint towards their tips, and on each wing- 
cover three black spots, the forward one long and narrow, the other 
two situated on the middle, parallel and almost in contact, the inner 
one placed rather farther back. 
4. The apple liopus. 
Liopus facetus Say. 
Order Coleoptera; family Cerambycil\e. 
Feeding on the leaves in July, a small black long-horned beetle .18 
long, with long slender hair-like tawny-yellow antennae, their basal 
joint and the tips of two or three following joints black ; its thorax 
with an ash-gray stripe on the middle and an oblique one on each side 
of this, the hind ends of these stripes sometimes uniting and forming 
a letter W ; its wing-covers with a large ash-gray spot forward of the 
middle and almost reaching the suture, having in it an oblique trian- 
gular black spot, and towards the tip an ash-gray band concave on its 
hind side. 
Mr. Say states that he obtained his specimens from the juniper, but 
its occurrence thereon was perhaps accidental, as I have found it on 
apple trees in a section of country where no juniper grows. (Fitch.) 
We may add that the European Liopus nebulosus Linn., though usually 
living in the apple and other fruit trees, also in Europe, mines the 
Pinus abies and P. picea. (See p. 658; fig. 216). 
5. The Juniper salmon-tinted caterpillar. 
Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^e. 
Feeding on the leaves of the low-bnsh juniper, in August, in Maine, a small noctuid 
caterpillar with five pairs of abdominal legs. Body thickest a little in front of the 
middle. Head small, rounded, pale honey-yellow, as wide as the prothoracic seg- 
ment. Body flesh colored, finely striped with alternating reddish flesh-colored and 
whitish fine wavy lines ; two subdorsal reddish lines on each side of the body. The 
body of this caterpillar is short and thick but sharp at the end, somewhat as in 
Leucania. When observed, August 27 to September 12, the caterpillar was about 6 mm 
long. 
6. Noctuid Larva. 
Order Lepidoptera ; family Noctuid^:. 
Beaten from the juniper, August 5, at Brunswick. 
Larva. — Head honey-yellow, with two darker stripes on each side of the clypeus. 
Body umber brown, with two broad conspicuous straw-yellow stripes, edged nar- 
rowly above with blackish, and a similar lateral spiracular stripe. Body beneath and 
all the feet pale blackish. Length, 27 mm . 
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