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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
APPLE. LIMBS. 
525. Spangled tree-bug, /Irma bracteata, new species. 
Like the preceding and of the same size, but darker colored 
and having in addition to the brassy green dots of that species 
one on each anterior angle of the thorax, two on the middle of its 
anterior edge, and two others back of these last, with several 
small irregular greenish black spots on the scutel and wing covers. 
Rare. Met with in July. 
20. Spined tree-bug, Arma spinosa, Dallas. 
Like the foregoing, but smaller and destitute of the brassy green 
dots; a dusky brown spot on the membranous tips of the wing 
covers: beneath with a row of black dots along each side of the 
middle, and a large round spot on the middle of the last segment; 
thighs with one or two black dots near their tips. Length 0.42 
to 0.52. During summer and autumn common on apple trees 
throughout the United States. Very similar to the Modest tree- 
bug, No. 101. 
Beetles eating the leaves. 
Rose bug, see No. 50. 
27. Cloaked Ciirysomela, Glyptoscelis crypticus, Say. (Coleoptera. Chrys- 
omelidae.) 
A thick cylindrical beetle, with its head sunk into the thorax 
and the thorax narrower than the body; pale ash gray from being 
entirely covered or cloaked with short incumbent whitish hairs; 
the closed wing covers showing a small right angled notch at the 
tip of their suture; scutel dusky. Length 0.32. Mr. Say met 
with this insect in Missouri, and my specimens are from the same 
vicinity, gathered by Wm. S. Robertson, who informs me that it 
eats oak leaves, but seems to prefer those of the apple tree, on 
which it is found in abundance. 
Worms eating the leaves. 
Probably a greater variety of worms are able to sustain them¬ 
selves upon the leaves of the apple than upon those of any other 
tree. Some of these will be numerous during one or two seasons 
and will then scarcely be seen again for several years, whilst of 
others a few will be met with almost every year. Some of them 
