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habit has suggested jarring the trees, and tlnis causing them to fall into a 

 sheet or other contrivance for securing and destroying them, which is the 

 most efficient remedy against them so far as known. 



A number of ingenious devices for jarring trees and securing the 

 beetles have been invented, which greatly facilitate the operation and les- 

 sen the labor. A description of these to be understood by the reader 

 would require more room than can be given to them at this time.* 



Another means of destroying them consists in destroying the fruit 

 which drops prematurely, but to make this effectual it must be gathered 

 soon after it falls before the grub leaves it to enter the ground, otherwise 

 no advantage is derived therefrom. Hogs and poultry, if allowed to run 

 in the orchard, will greatly assist in this matter. 



Spec. Char. Imago. — Snout about as long as the head and thorax, slightly and 

 regularly carved, and turned under the breast when at rest ; cylindrical and very nearly 

 of the same size throughout ; head round and deeply immersed in the thorax, which 

 projects slightly forward on the upper side. Thorax cylindrical or barrel-shape, slightly 

 narrowed in front and somewhat enlarged in the middle ; a very slight median carina, 

 each side of which there are two minute tubercles, one in front of the other (a glass is 

 necessary in order to see these) ; width about equal the length, considerably narrower 

 than the elytra, being to the latter as two is to three. The elytra, when closed, present a 

 shield-shaped figure, broadest at the shoulders, which are prominent and somewhat 

 tuberculate ; there is a slight sutural ridge or carina ; on the inner half of each wing-case 

 there are about five long sharp tubercles, arranged in two longitudinal rows ; the inner 

 row next the suture has three in it, the middle one being the largest ; the outer row has 

 two in it ; outside of this there is also an interrupted carina or ridge, in fact these tuber- 

 cles are but parts of longitudinal ridges which are interrupted by transverse depressions; 

 between these ridges or elevated lines are double rows of punctures. Thighs with two 

 small spines beneath, next the tip. Color dark ashy brown, varied with pitchy black. 

 Head and rostrum dark reddish brown ; thorax very dark reddish brown with some ful- 

 vous hairs on each side in front. Elytra similar in color with a transverse irregular 

 band of pitchy black at the middle, which includes in it the two largest tubercles before 

 mentioned ; immediately behind each of these two tubercles is a fulvous spot formed by 

 the massing of minute yellowish hairs. Tibiit reddish. 



Conotrachelus cratmgi, Walsh. Quince-curculio. 



This beetle, which is about one-fifth of an inch long, has a rather 

 longer snout than the preceding, is very broad-shouldered, the front mar- 

 gins of the wing-cases being square and considerably broader than the 

 thorax. Its general color is a somewhat uniform ash-gray, mottled more 

 or less with dull yellow, dusky and whitish. It is without the humps on 

 the back, but has about seven small longitudinal ridges. 



This species does not make a crescent mark like the plum-curculio, 

 but makes a direct puncture like the apple-curculio for the reception of 

 its eggs, the hole being somewhat larger than that made by the latter, and 

 it is similarly enlarged at the bottom. The egg, which is similar to that 

 of the plum-curculio, hatches in a few days after it is deposited. The 



*The late Dr. E. S. Hull, of Alton, has made trapping the curculio a specialty, 

 and has invented several machines for the [jurpose, the latest and best of which seems 

 to be all that can be desired. It is made by some mechanic in Oitawa, 111., whose name 

 we do not know. It is called " Dr. Hull's Curculio Catcher." — Editor. 



