. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 202 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CHERRY. > --. ¥iG. 208. No. 105.—The Spotted Horn-beetle. ~ r Dynastes tityus (Linn.). - This is an enormous beetle, some two inches in length, exclusive of its horns. It is of a pale-olive color, with the wing-covers spotted and dotted with black. In the males the middle of the thorax is extended forward in the form of a long black horn, which is hairy along its under side, and /. ; v^ usually notched at its tip, as if formed to receive the sharp point of another sim
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 202 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CHERRY. > --. ¥iG. 208. No. 105.—The Spotted Horn-beetle. ~ r Dynastes tityus (Linn.). - This is an enormous beetle, some two inches in length, exclusive of its horns. It is of a pale-olive color, with the wing-covers spotted and dotted with black. In the males the middle of the thorax is extended forward in the form of a long black horn, which is hairy along its under side, and /. ; v^ usually notched at its tip, as if formed to receive the sharp point of another similar horn, which curves upwards from the crown of the head. There are two other horns be- tween these, short and sharp-pointed. The female is smaller than the male, and unarmed, except w^ith a small tubercle on the head. Fig. 208 represents the male. The beetle occasionally varies in color: specimens have been found with chestnut-brown wing-covers, others with the thorax black; and in one instance a male was taken with one of the wing-covers black, while the other was of the normal character. The larva of this insect bores in old, decaying cherry-trees. It somewhat resembles that of the rough Osmoderma, No. 8, but is much larger. The beetle is frequently met with in the South, and is sometimes found as far north as Pennsylvania, but the damage it inflicts is very Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co
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