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reddish-brown to pitchy black, but the denuded fascia never 

 reaches the suture. The variety pull id a of Dietz is a mere color 

 form. 



A. signatiis is known as the "strawberry weevil," the female 

 depositing 1 her eggs in the bud of strawberry, blackberry, rasp- 

 berry or dewberry, then cutting- or puncturing the stem be- 

 low the bud, so that it falls off in a few days. Chittenden (1908) 

 states that the flower then remains folded, the larva? feeding on 

 rhe pollen and other tissues within. The entire cycle of life from 

 egg to adult is about 30 days. The adults also feed upon the 

 pollen and petals of the berry plants, and hibernate. As far as 

 known there is but one brood each season. Remedies: (a) Spray- 

 ing just before blooming with crude carbolic acid, one part to 

 100 of water, or with Paris green or London purple, one pound to 

 one hundred gallons of water; (b) Covering the strawberry buds 

 with muslin or similar material; (c) Cultural remedies, includ- 

 ing the cultivation of pistillate and profuse blooming varieties 

 of strawberry, the use of trap crops, and clean culture. 



435 (10,992). ANTHOXOMUS CONSIMILIS Dietz, 1891, 216. 



Form and size of signatus. Uniform pitchy brown or black, the de- 

 nuded fascia always reaching to the first interval or suture; antennae paler. 

 Beak distinctly curved, less densely punctured and a little more slender; 

 funicle less robust, its outer joints scarcely wider, the second more elongate 

 and slender. Head opaque, rugulose. Thorax with the sides more strongly 

 rounded, and more strongly narrowed in front. Length 2.5 2.8 mm. 



Lawrence Co., Indiana, May 11. Taken by beating. Described 

 from District of Columbia. Known also from Wisconsin and 

 Illinois. 



436 ( ) ANTHONOMUS LIKEXSIS sp. nov. 



Broadly oval. Piceous-brown, shining, head, beak and femora darker; 

 surface rather thickly clothed with fine prostrate whitish hairs condensed 

 on scutellum, in the transverse lines enclosing the denuded area of elytra 

 and on the sternal side pieces below; antennae and tarsi pale reddish-brown, 

 the club darker. Beak rather stout, cylindrical, scarcely as long as head 

 and thorax, finely carinate, finely and densely reticulate-punctate. Head 

 alutaceous, the frontal fovea very small. First joint of funicle slender, 

 as long as the next three, second two-thirds longer than third, 3 7 sub- 

 equal, gradually slightly wider. Thorax strongly transverse, two-thirds 

 wider than long, sides strongly rounded, constricted near apex; disc with 

 large rounded, rather densely placed punctures, their intervals distinctly 

 alutaceous. Elytra one-third wider at base than thorax, sides almost 

 straight to apical third, then broadly rounded to apex; stria? shallow, their 

 punctures small, rounded, close-set; intervals feebly convex, very finely 

 rugulose, minutely and sparsely punctate. Length 2 2.3 mm. (W. S. B.) 



