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Flea Beetles (Haltidda.) 
It is not known that these insects have ever been severely injun- 
ous to the strawberry; but as they are often very common upon 
these p ants, and as' some of them are exceedingly destructive to 
other vegetation, it seems worth while to notice them here, they 
are easily distinguished by their swollen hind thighs, which give some 
of them a nower of leaping scarcely exceeded by the flea itself. 
° Three species, all minute, are known to infest the strawberry: the 
noflTusTabbage flea beetle (P^treta vritata), and^wo others no 
heretofore reported as injurious to this tiuit ,—Epitnx jusciua ana 
S2/ The first" may be distinguished by its smooth and shining surface, 
black with two broad, irregular, yellow stripes on the wing covers. 
Ev’itrix fuscnla is of about the same size as the cabbage flea 
beetle but shorter and thicker. It is black throughout, except the 
antemne and tarsi, which are red, and the elytra are covered ,j4 
a conspicuous coat ot gray pubescence. Ihe thorax is coarsely 
punctured^ and marked with a transverse impression before- the 
^tsunaiunda, already known as injurious to corn was especially 
abundant on the leaves of the strawberry near Anna in Southern 
Illinois where it was certainly feeding upon that plant, as i nae 
demonstrated by dissection. It may be easily distinguished from t e 
other flea beetles by its elongate form, and by its ochre-yellow coloi, 
wi h a broad pale stripe on the middle of each wing-cover The 
punctures on the latter are irregularly distributed, instead of being 
arranged in rows, as in the other species. ,, 
Although Phyllotreta vittata was abundant on cabbages m Southern 
TilirmU in the soring of 1883, I did not notice it on strawberries 
adjacent, and I doubUf it is likely to require the especial attention 
of the strawberry grower. 
The Strawberry Leaf Beetles. 
Paria aterrima, Hald. 
Scelodonta pubescens, Mels. 
Colaspis brunnea, Fab. 
Golaspis tristis, Oliv. 
The three species first mentioned are the adult beetles of the root; 
worms of the strawberry, and will be fully described and figure; 
on another page. They are mentioned here to call attention to th 
fact that the! all feed, at least for a time after emerging fron 
the earth, upon the leaves of the strawberry plant one of then 
(Faria aterrima) occasionally doing conspicuous mischief. As t 
species has the longest adult life of any of the root-worms, it is th; 
most likely to do harm as a leaf-beetle; and is m tact, the t 
one the injuries of which have attracted attention hitherto. I : 
beetles should become abundant enough to require remedial 
ures poisoning with Paris green and other suitable substances, 
recommended in the discussion of these insects given under tb 
bead of strawberry root-worms, will be the most suitable leme y. 
