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THE PLUM GOUGER. 



(Anthonomus prunicida, Walsh.) 



ITS CHARACTER, DISTRIBUTION, AND FOOD. 



[ FlOUKE 10.] 



The Plum Gonger. 



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 preceding weevils — as you will see at a glance by refer- 

 ring to the figures and to the specimens in the lecture-box — 

 by its ochre-yellow thorax and legs and its darker wing-covers, 

 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 Cur- 

 culio. This insect was first described in the Prairie Farmer 

 for June 13th, 1863, and the description was afterwards rej)ub- 

 iished in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History for February, 1864. 



31r. 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 received spec- 



