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This Crown Borer must not be confounded with another 

 white "worm of about the same size whicii lives in the ground 

 and subsists on the roots by devouring them from the outside- 

 This last may always be distinguished by having six distinct 

 legs near the head, and its habits are quite different. It occurs 

 earlier in the season, and, as I have proved the past summer, is 

 the larva of the little clay-yellow beetle, known as the Grape- 

 vine Colaspis {Colaspis flavida, Say). A full account of this 

 last insect, wuth illustrations, will be given in the forthcoming 

 Third Entomological Report of Missouri. 



This weevil belongs to the genus ^;!a7c/s, which is distinguished by its 

 sub-cylindrical oblong-oval body, its short robust snout which fits into a 

 deep grove, its 10-jointed antennae, and its simple or unarmed thighs. 

 As our strawberry insect is a new species, I subjoin a description of it 

 for the scientific reader : 



Analcts fragaele, X. Sp. — Imago, Fig. 11, c — Color deep, sub-pol- 

 ished, chestnut-brown, the elytra somewhat lighter. Head and rostrum 

 dark, finely and densely punctate, and with short, coarse, fulvous hairs, 

 longest at tip of rostrum ; antennae rather lighter towards base, 10-jointed, 

 the scape much thickened at apex, joint 2 longest and robust, 3 moder- 

 ately long, 4-7 short, 8-10 connate and forming a stout club. Thorax 

 dark, cylindrical, slightly swollen across the middle, and uniformly 

 covered with large thimble-like punctures, and with a few short coarse 

 fulvous hairs, unusually arranged in three more or less distinct longitud- 

 inal lines ; pectoral groove ending between front legs. Abdomen with 

 small remote punctures and hairs, which are denser towards apex. Legs 

 of equal stoutness, and with shallow dilated punctures and uniform very 

 short hairs. Elytra more yellowish-brown, dilated at the lower sides 

 anteriorly, and with about 9 deeply-punctured striae, the strieo 

 sometimes obsolete; more or less covered with coarse and short pale 

 yellow hairs, which form, by their greater density, three more or less 

 conspicuous transverse bands, the first of which is at base ; between the 

 second and third band, in the middle of the elytron, is a smooth dark- 

 brown or black spot, with a less distinct spot of the same color below 

 the third, and a still less distinct one above the second band. Length 

 0.16 inch. 



Described from four specimens bred of strawberry-boring larvae. The 

 black spots on the elytra arc quite distinct and conspicuous on two spec- 

 imens, less so on one, and entirely obsolete on the other. 



Larva, Fig. 11, a — White with hack arched Laraellicorn-fashion. 



