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culio, with a much longer snout, which cannot be folded 

 under the body so completely as that of the plum curculio. 

 This insect {Antho7iomu8 quadrigibhus^ ^o-y-i) ^s from .05 

 inch to .08 inch long, of a rusty brown color, with three 

 pale lines on the thorax, which, however, may be quite indis- 

 tinct. It lives naturally on the wild apple, to which it is 

 still confined in some places, and does not touch orchards 

 which it may be quite near, while in other places it has 

 acquired a taste for cultivated fruit, and commits extensive 

 depredations upon it. There is one brood yearly. The 

 eggs are laid in a groove cut out of the fruit, and the egg 

 develops and the larva undergoes its transformations inside 

 the fruit. As soon as the egg hatches the young worm starts 

 for the center of the fruit, and feeds about the core. It 

 reaches its full growth in about four weeks. It has no legs, 

 cannot straighten itself, according to Riley, and could not, 

 like the larva of other curculios, descend the tree. He tells 

 us that when it has reached its fall growth it " settles down 

 in a neat cavity and assumes the pupa state." In this state 

 it remains two or three weeks and then it becomes a perfect 

 beetle. I do not know positively that this beetle is ever 

 found' in Vermont, but it is widely distributed over the 

 country, and may very likely be in this State. It also 

 attacks pears. Apples are also attacked sometimes by the true 

 plum curculio. ]No very good remedy for this evil has 

 yet been discovered. If all the infested fruit could be 

 picked, or shaken off, of course the work of the beetle 

 would stop, and the best thing that can now be recom- 

 mended is to try to do this. Several species of boring bee- 

 tles often injure apple and other fruit trees. It is only in 



