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The adults collected in the field during the latter part of Septem- 

 ber and October are probably members of a new brood which later 

 go into hibernation. In the field we found infested seed capsules 

 only on those plants growing along the edges of the marsh. None 

 was observed on plants growing on the marsh. The reason for this 

 is evident when one considers that pupation would not take place 

 successfully in almost constantly wet ground. 



Egg. — Length i mm. Width 0.38 mm. Oval, color white with 

 very slight tinge, chorion smooth. 



Full Grown Larva. — Length 8.5 mm. Width of head 1. 1 mm. 

 Normal curculio-form type, resting in characteristic curved position. 

 Color yellowish white ; skin smooth, transversely wrinkled ; apodous ; 

 largest at central portion and tapering slightly toward head and 

 somewhat more so toward oval end where it is obtusely rounded. 

 Head yellowish white in young and partly grown larva and reddish 

 brown in mature larva with mandibles and adjacent sutures darker. 

 Dorsal surface of first thoracic segment reddish brown divided by a 

 median light line. Each segment bears a transverse row of eight 

 fine hairs consisting of four subventral and four subdorsal ones. 

 Double row of hairs on first thoracic segment and several hairs on 

 head. Spiracles on all segments except second and third thoracic 

 and last abdominal. 



Pupa. — Length 5.5 mm. Width 4.4 mm. Similar in color to 

 larva. Dorsal surface well supplied with spines, fewer on ventral 

 surface. 



Adult. — Conotrachclus fissunguis Lee. (from Blatchley & Leng). 

 " Broadly oval, robust, convex. Dark brown ; elytra in great part 

 densely clothed with short yellow pubescence, darker near apex, a 

 short denuded blackish band crossing the suture about the middle ; 

 femora annulated with yellow pubescence; antennae, tibiae and tarsi 

 paler. Thorax as long as wide, sides slightly rounded, feebly con- 

 stricted near apex; disc very coarsely and deeply punctured and with 

 longitudinal ridges near the tip, the middle one more distant. Elytra 

 at base one half wider than thorax, sides parallel, then obliquely 

 narrowed to apex; disc with rows of large distant punctures; inter- 

 vals wide, flat. Abdomen coarsely punctured. Length 5-5.5 mm." 



In addition to the distribution mentioned above, specimens in col- 

 lection at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station show that 



