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side. It is .30 of an inch long. An insect that wonld be 

 readily mistaken for the Ilylohius pales is the Otiorliynchus sid- 

 catus of Fabricius (Fig. 464), which is of much the same color, 

 but with a thicker body. 



The Plum Gouger, Anthonomus prunicida Walsh, resembles 

 the Plum curculio in its habits, and, according to Walsh, is 

 equally as common in Northern and Central Illinois. It makes 

 a round puncture in the plum, sometimes five or six, from 

 which the gum copiously exudes. Instead of living, however, 

 in the pulp, it devours the kernel and usuall}^ transforms inside 

 the stone of the fruit. "The thorax of the plum gouger is 

 ochre-j'ellow ; the head and hinder parts slate-color, the latter 

 with irregular white and black spots. In common with the 

 other species of the genus to which it belongs its snout usually 

 projects forward, whereas that of the Curculio usually hangs 

 perpendicularly downwards." (Walsh.) A. sycophanta Walsh 

 is brown-black and was bred by Mr. Walsh from the galls of 

 various saw-flies found on the willow, and he supposes that this 

 species, "while in the larva state, must destroy the egg or the 

 very young larva of the gall-making Nematus, just as A. cra- 

 tcegi Walsh evidently does ; which was found in an undescribed 

 Cecidomyian gall on the thorn bush, and just as the larva of 

 A. scutellatus Schonh. gradually destroj's the young plant-lice 

 among which it lives ; otherwise the two larva? would exist in 

 the same gall." Walsh has also bred A. tessellatus Walsh from 

 the Cecidomyian gall, C. s. brassicoides. It is " a very con- 

 stant species and easily recognizable by the tessellate appear- 

 ance of the el3^tra." A. quadn'gibbus Say punctures the apple, 

 making from one to twenty holes in the fruit. 



The Cranberry weevil, as we may call it, or the Anthonomus 

 sitturalis Lee, is a minute reddish brown beetle, with the beak 

 one-half as long as the body, just beyond the middle of which 

 the antennae are inserted. The head is darker than the rest 

 of the bod}', being Ijrown black. The thorax is a little darker 

 than the elytra and covered very sparsely with short whitish 

 hairs ; the scutellum is whitish, and the elytra are shining red- 

 dish brown, with the stria; deeply punctured, the interstices 

 being smooth. It is .13 of an inch long including the beak. 

 Mr. W. C. Fish writes me that in the middle of July he 



