CHRYSOMELA TRIMACULATA
      (Plate xiv, fig. 16.)

   Head, thorax, body, antennae and legs steel-blue. Elytra orange, marked with a broad black band extending nearly across the base, and two large triangular black spots near the apices : scutel and sutural line black. The margins of the black spots are undulating. The punctures of the elytra are arranged in lines. Length three-eighths of an inch.

   Found in great abundance in Western Massachusetts and New York.


References
  • Emmons, E. 1854. The Natural History of New York. Part V: Agriculture. D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, New York.

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