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many of them will be injured and destroyed by late stirring of the soil. 



CoNOTRACHELUS CRAT^Gi, Walsh — Larva — Average length when full grown 

 0.32 inch; 4^;^ times as long as wide, and straight. Opaque whitish, with a narrow 

 dusky dorsal line, generally obsolete on thorax, and a few very short hairs. Distinct 

 lateral tubercles on all the joints. Head rufous with mandibles black, except at 

 base, and distinctly two-toothed at tip. 



Pufa — Average length 0.28 inch. Snout reaching a little beyond elbow of 

 middle tibiiu and tarsi, w ith two stout rufous thorns near the origin of antennae, 

 two more at base and sometimes others more toward the tip. Head and thorax also 

 armed with such thorns, and also two to each elbow of the femora and tibiae. 

 Wing cases with rows of short rufous bristles along the elevations between the 

 striae. Abdomen cylindrical, the basal joint with a central scutellar bristlelcss 

 tubercle and two others, one each side of it, each bearing a bristle: the other 

 joints conicallv tubercled laterally, each tubercle bearing a stout bristle, and each 

 joint bearing dorsally about four other bristles on its posterior sub-margin. Ter- 

 minal sub-segment squarely cut olf and bearing two stout inwardly-curved brown 

 thorns. 



THE PLUM GOUGER. 



{Atithonomus frunicida, Walsh.) 



ITS CHARACTER, DISTRIBUTION, AND FOOD. 



[Fig. 10.] 



The Plum Gouger. 



This name was given by Mr. Walsh to another indigenous weevil 

 which is represented enlarged in the accompanying illustration (Fig. 10). 

 It is easily distinguished from either of the preceeding weevils — as you 

 will see at a glance by referring to the figures and to the specimens in the 

 lecture-box — by its ochre-yellow thorax and legs and its darker wing-cov- 

 ers, which are dun-colored, or brown with a leaden-gray tint, and have no 

 humps at all. Its snout is not much longer than the thorax, but as in 

 the Apple Curculio, projects forwards, or downwards, but can not be bent 

 under as in the Plum Curculio. This insect was first described in the 

 Prairie Parmer for June 13th, 1S63, and the description was afterwards 

 republished in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 

 for February, 1S64. 



Mr. Walsh gave such a good account of it in his Report as Acting 

 State Entomologist that it is unnecessary for me to go into detail, and 

 I will therefore only briefly allude to those traits in its history which are 

 well established. 



The Plum Gouger seems to be unknown in the Eastern States, but 

 is very generally distributed throughout the valley of the Mississippi. 

 As a rule it is much less common and does much less injury than the little 

 Turk, though in some few districts it is found equally abundant, and I 



