Insects injurious to fruits . spotted and dotted with black. In the malesthe middle of the thorax is extended forward in the form ofa long black horn, which is hairy along its under side, and usually notched atits tip, as if formedto receive the sharppoint of anothersimilar horn, whichcurves upwards fromthe crown of thehead. There aretwo other horns be-tween these, shortand female issmaller than themale, and unarmed,except with a smalltubercle on thehead. Fig. 208represents the beetle occasionally varies in color: specimens havebeen found with chestnut-brown wing-cov
Insects injurious to fruits . spotted and dotted with black. In the malesthe middle of the thorax is extended forward in the form ofa long black horn, which is hairy along its under side, and usually notched atits tip, as if formedto receive the sharppoint of anothersimilar horn, whichcurves upwards fromthe crown of thehead. There aretwo other horns be-tween these, shortand female issmaller than themale, and unarmed,except with a smalltubercle on thehead. Fig. 208represents the beetle occasionally varies in color: specimens havebeen found with chestnut-brown wing-covers, others with thethorax black; and in one instance a male was taken with oneof the wing-covers black, while the other was of the normalcharacter. The larva of this insect bores in old, decaying somewhat resembles that of the rough Osmoderma, No. 8,but is much larger. The beetle is frequently nut with in theSouth, and is sometimes found as far north as Pennsylvania,but the damage it inflicts is very ATTACKING THE BRANCHES. 203 Fig. 209. ATTACKING THE BEANOHES. No. 106.—The Dog-day Cicada. Cicada iihicen Linn. In appearance this insect very much resembles the seven-teen-year locust, No. 15, but differs from it by occurring inmore or less abundance every year during the months ofAugust and September, when it sometimes wounds the smalllimbs of the cherry and deposits its eggs therein. The bodyis black on the upper side, the head and thorax being spottedand marked with olive-green. The wings are large, trans-parent, and strongly veined, the principal veins having agreenisii tint. The under side of thebody is coated with a whitish powder,legs greenish. This cicada, which isshown in Fig. 209, is very generallydistributed throughout the NorthernUnited States and the province ofOntario, and the shrill notes of themales may be heard almost everywhereduring warm days in August, from tenoclock in the morning until two inthe afternoon. The males only aremusical
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