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Fig. 1 60. Strawberry weevil and its work: a, shoot of strawberry plant 

 bearing punctured buds; b, enlarged eggs at c; at d, larva; e, its 

 head, much enlarged; f, pupa, enlarged; g, open straw- 

 berry flower showing work of beetles. 



A. signatus Say. Throughout the State; much more common in the 

 southern counties. This is the strawberry weevil which always does 

 some and occasionally serious injury in Atlantic, Cumberland, Bur- 

 lington, Ocean and Cape May Counties. It feeds also on black, dew 

 and raspberry and occasionally on other plants. The remedial meas- 

 ures are cultural in most part. 



A. musculus Say. Throughout the State, not rare VII, on huckleberry. 

 A. nigrinus Boh. Staten Island (Lg) ; DaCosta VII, 16 (Brn) ; New Jer- 

 sey, on horse nettle, "Solanum virginiensis" (W). 



A. scutellatus Gyll. Hopatcong (Pm) ; Caldwell III, 15 (Bf) ; Orange 

 Mts. (GG); Newark Dist. (div); DaCosta (Li); Anglesea (W). 



A. juniperinus Sanb. Anglesea (Li); Bayside IX, 22, on juniper (W), 

 feeding in a fungus growth. 



A. rufipes Lee. Buena Vista (Li). 



A. disjunctus Lee. Gloucester Co. (W) ; DaCosta VII, 16 (Brn); Atlantic 

 City (Castle); Bamber IX, 1 (Dke); Chews Landing IX, 6 (W). 



