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which was said by a fi'uit-grower to be ruining his entire strawberry crop in 

 Tuly, by puncturing the fruit. Aiithoiumics mwscalus and a number of related 

 s^MJcics occur also in Illinois, and we are therefore liable to the same injuries 

 which have attracted attention in Micliigan. In the absence of any further 

 inf(.»rmation concerning this matter, I quote from the article of Professor 

 Cook : " This strawberry weevil, of which I can find no mention anywhere as 

 a strawberry pest, proves to be AiUhonomus mmcuius, and was described by 

 Thomas S.iy many years ago. His description is as follows: Dull rufous; 

 scutel and elytral spotted bands whitish. Inhabits United States. Body 

 more or less dull rufous, or piceous, punctured. Head piceous ; rostrum 

 with elevated lines; antennae rufous ; club dusky ; thorax piceous, very much 

 crowded with punctures ; small recurved, distant whitish hairs; scutel oval 

 white; elytra with oval impressed striie of large punctures; rufous with the 

 edge piceous; two or three undulated macular whitish bands of short hairs; 

 beneath piceous; feet rufous. Length, including rostrum, .1 of an inch. 

 Variety an obscure piceous, almost black; bands obvious. This varies con- 

 siderably in its depth of coloring." 



REMEDIES. ' 



In this matter I can only suggest. I should try the pyrethrnm and kero- 

 sene, as described above, and if they were of no avail, I should hope to study, 

 out its natural history in hopes that that would furnish suggestions that 

 would lead to an effectual cure." 



TiiK Takkishkd Plant Blx; {Lygus lincularis, Beauv.) 

 Order Hemiptkra. Family Capsid.k 



The tarnished plant bug is one of the true bugs, and is consequently destitute 

 of jaws and provided with a suctorial beak. The adult or winged form is about 

 a fifth of an inch in length by half that in width, oval, yellow or greenish 

 yellow, more or less striped or mottled with dusky. It is extremely va- 

 riable, but the most constant marks are live longitudinal white lines on the 

 thorax (often reduced to spots, which then occupy the anterior margin), a 

 white ?/-8haped mark on the scutclluni, which is sometimes broken into three 

 white points arranged in a triangle, and a white blotch tipped with black 

 near the end of the wing covers. 



Tlie young are much less variegated than the adult, and more distinctly 

 green. There are four stages between the egg and the mature insect, cor- 

 responding to as many diderent moults. In all except the first stage, the 

 young may be tlistinguish(>(l by the presence of five black dots upon the 

 Ijack arranged in a pentagonal form. 



The old bugs winter under rubbish upon the ground, emerge early in 

 spring, cluster upon the unfolding buds of fruit trees, the fresh foliage of 

 htrawl)erries and other early vegetation, and there lay their eggs, old and 

 young together draining the .sap of these succulent growing parts. The ef- 

 fect is to arreut the development of the leaves, and even to kill them, and in 



