STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. IT3 



REMEDIES AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES. 



Notwithstanding we have had reports pubHshed, in the columns of 

 our agricultural papers, of the relative number of Apple and of Plum Cur- 

 culios captured from peach trees by jarring with the Curculio-catcher, I 

 am fully convinced that such reports were not based on facts, and that we 

 may ne\'er expect to subdue this insect by the jarring process. It is not 

 as timid or as much inclined to drop as the Plum Curculio, and though 

 it can occasionally be brought down, it generally remains defiantly 

 on the fruit or on the bough, through the gentlest as well as the 

 severest jarring of the tree. Indeed, its habit of transforming in 

 the fruit, places it in a great measure beyond our control, and I 

 fear that this is one of the few insects with which we can do but 

 little by artificial means. But we have only just commenced to under- 

 stand this foe, and there is much yet to learn about it. I sincerely hope 

 that the few facts which have been here given, will increase your interest 

 in this insect and enable you to carry on future observations and experi- 

 ments with a better understanding; so that they will at last result in 

 making us masters of this rather difficult situation. Mr. H. Lewelling 

 of High Hill, Montgomery Co., Mo., who has had much of his fruit 

 injured by this insect, informs me that Tallman's Sweet is preferred by it 

 to all other varieties, and our observations should, as much as possible, 

 tend in the direction of deciding which varieties are most subject to, and 

 which most exempt from its attacks; and which varieties fall most readily 

 when infested by it. For it is obvious that with our present knowledge, 

 the only real remedy which yet exists, is the destruction of the infested 

 fruit, whether upon or off' the tree ; and it may turn out that although we 

 can not jar down the beetles we can jar down much of the infested fruit, 

 which would, without jarring, remain on the trees. 



Anthonomus quADRiGiBBUs, Saj — Larva (Fig. 8, V) — Average dorsal length 

 when full grown 0.45 inch; soft and white, with a very few sparse soft hairs; arched 

 and wrinkled Lamellicorn-fashion, the space between the wrinkles, and a distinct 

 dorsal vascular line bluish-black. Head free and almost perpendicular, yellowish- 

 brown with the mandibles darker. A pair of polishel ventral tubercles on each of 

 the three thoracic joints, and each bearing a distinct bristle. 



Pupa (Fig. 8; a) — Average length 0.40 inch. Whitish, the snout of female 

 reaching beyond the lip of wing-cases, that of male not much beyond the elbow 

 of middle femora and tibia;. Thorax with a few short stiff hairs springing from 

 slight conical elevations. Wing-cases showing the stria; and humps of future 

 beetle, the tip of the upper case usually terminating in a thorn. The nine abdom- 

 inal joints deeply and distinctly separated, the first showing a rounded scuttellar 

 tubercle; the sides angular, conically ridged and armed on each joint with two 

 brown thorns or bristles, which become stouter towards apex; a transverse dorsal 

 row of about eight similar bristles on llie posterior sub-margin of each joint, also 

 becoming larger towards apex: Terminal sub-segment ending in one stout, slightly 

 curved, thorn. 



THE QUINCE CURCULIO. 



{Co7tolrac/ielus crnlagi, Walsh.) 

 HOW IT DIFFERS FROM THE OTHERS. 



This insect has been called the Qiiince Curculio by Dr. Trimble, and 

 though it breeds in other fruits, the name is a good one as it will enable 

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