(Kmtabian dftitomclo 



Yol. II. TORONTO, SEPT. & OCT., 1ST0. Nos. 10 & 11. 



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Daring the last few months the Editor and his valued contributors, Messrs. 

 W. Saunders and E. Baynes Reed, have had the little leisure they are wont 

 to devote to Entomology, so completely engrossed with the preparation of a 

 Report on some of the Noxious Insects of Canada, for the Agricultural and 

 Arts, and the Fruit Grower's Associations of Ontario, that it has been quite 

 out of their power to issue a number of the Canadian Entomologist. In order 

 to make some amends for this delay, we now issue a double number, and hope 

 — we no longer venture to promise — to publish the closing number of the 

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EXTRACT FROM A REPORT OX THE PLUxM CURCULIO, 



(Conotrachelus nenuphar.) 

 BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. 



Read before the Meeting of ilie Fruit Growers Association of Ontario, held in London, June, 1870. 



The accompanying figure shows the cur - 

 culio in all its stages, a, is the larva, b, the 

 chrysalis, c, the perfect beetle, all magnified, 

 the adjoining lines show the natural size, 

 d, is a small plum with the curculio (natu- 

 ral size) working on it. One egg is de- 

 posited under the crescent cut, and a second 

 incision is being made. 



I shall now refer to some experiments of 

 my own on this insect which will, I hope, 

 Fig. 8. add something to our knowledge of the 



creature's habits. I had seen it stated somewhere that the curculio was 





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