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ventral segment broadly emarginate. In the older specimens the color- 

 ation appears to be quite uniform, whereas in younger females, there are 

 six irregular rows of large, oval or roundish dusky or brownish spots on 

 the abdomen, interspersed with numerous smaller spots of two sizes, each 

 of the latter bearing a slender black hair; there are also four large lateral 

 spots in front of the nectaries, while the head and thorax are entirely of a 

 dark color; there are also two pairs of dark spots on the meso- and meta- 

 thorax, the anterior pair on each of these segments being much the 

 smaller and transversely linear. 



The larvae are very much elongated, their lateral margins quite paral- 

 lel : the body is also more or less distinctly spotted, and the hairs of the 

 abdomen are rather long and slender. Nectaries short, about the length 

 of the posterior tarsi, stout at base, elongate-conical, not reaching to the 

 end of the abdomen ; just behind each of them is a stout and conical 

 lateral tubercle, about one-half the length of the nectaries, bearing at the 

 apex a long, slender, backwardly directed bristle, while a similar though 

 smaller pair of tubercles is situated at the posterior margin of the follow- 

 ing segment. The last dorsal segment is broadly triangular. 



The pup;e are spotted similarly to the younger apterous females, and 

 are also very hairy, though the nectaries are longer, quite slender/though 



still somewhat fusiform. 



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Texas Notes I. 

 BY E. DWIGHT SANDERSON. 



i. Omileus epictzroides L/ec. A snout weevil injurious to 

 peach foliage. Injury by this species to peach foliage was 

 first called to our attention by two correspondents in East 

 Texas early in March, 1904. The beetles were reported as 

 seriously injuring the foliage of young peach trees. The same 

 insect had done similar injury the year previous. Examina- 

 tion showed them to be wingless, and their control therefore 

 appeared simple. The insects seemed most numerous during 

 the first ten days of April. Visiting Dialville, in the heart of 

 the peach belt, on April 29th, we found them still abundant. 

 The foliage had been eaten much as by Lachno sterna. The 

 sexes had been mating for some time. The beetles were 

 shaken from the trees with great difficulty so that jarring was 

 not feasible. They were noticed most commonly on tender 

 sprouts from oak stumps. It developed that they were injur- 

 ious almost entirely on or adjoining newly planted orchards on 

 land just cleared off and surrounded by oak. It seems to us 



