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food plant of this species, it would follow the same distribution. In 

 regard to this matter, Mr. Leng on inquiry has written as follows: 

 " Rhccboscclis tenuis is recorded from New Jersey, District of Co- 

 lumbia and Florida. A closely allied species has been described by 

 Schaeffer (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XII, p. 211) from Texas. It is 

 not mentioned in Blanchard's New England List nor in Hamilton's 

 Pennsylvania List nor in the Michigan List nor is it mentioned by 

 Blatchley, so that its distribution so far as I know seems to be re- 

 stricted to the more southerly Atlantic States and possibly the Gulf 

 States. In Ulke's list it is said to have been taken on oak, but the 

 reference given in Smith's List shows that it occurs from May to 

 September on low plants in swampy places." 



The latter date is a record from Lakehurst and seems rather diffi- 

 cult to account for, as it hardly seems possible that the life history 

 would be so very different at Lakehurst from what it is at Ruther- 

 ford where the adults apparently disappeared by mid-summer. The 

 local records of distribution are as follows: Rutherford (nursery); 

 Arlington (meadows) ; Springfield (nursery) ; Palmyra (river 

 marsh) ; Lawrence Station (pond shore) ; Westville (river marsh) ; 

 Gibbstown; Greenwood Lake, v, 17 (Joutell); Lakehurst, v, vi, ix 

 (Joutell) ; Gloucester, vii, I (Boerner) ; Five Mile Beach, April 4 

 (Wenzel) ; Burlington Co., June 4 (G. M. Greene) ; New Jersey. 

 Dyker Meadows, L. I., vii, 6 (Shoemaker) ; Belleport, L. I., vi, 27 

 (Nicolay) ; New York. Angora, June 15 (G. M. Greene) ; Penn- 

 sylvania. Chesapeake Beach, vi (Shoemaker) ; Maryland. 



In the nurseries where the last season's dry stalks are allowed to 

 remain on the plants, the beetles emerging from these infest the pres- 

 ent season's growth. Moreover, it is apparent that if these old 

 stalks are cut and burned, the infestation will be largely eliminated. 

 If this is done the stalks should be cut at the surface of the ground. 

 The importance of this was shown in a nursery where the stalks 

 had been removed in the early spring, but several inches at the base 

 had been left standing, and in these mature larvae and pupae were 

 found. It is also evident that the injury to the leaves by the adults 

 could be controlled by spraying with arsenate of lead. 



Conotrachelus fissunguis Lee. 



The description of this species by LeConte appeared in 1876 in 

 the Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XV. Blatchley and Leng in their " Rhyn- 



