SCARRED SNOUT-BEETLES. 



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The insect is very convex ; the thorax has a projecting angle at 

 each side, and the hody is almost egg-shaped. 



Judging from the work seen such snout-beetles can become 

 very destructive, and it will be difficult to combat them. Many 

 vears ago a snout-beetle infesting the roots of grasses was very 

 numerous in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Md., yet its presence 

 was not suspected at all, as no injury to the lawns was noticed, 

 except that the plants seemed to need food, which was provided 

 them in the form of a very bad-smelling manure obtained from 

 cleaning hog-bristles imported from Hungary for the manufac- 

 ture of brushes, etc. A liberal application of this substance was 



Fig. 193.— Otiurhynchus 

 ovatus, Linn. 



Fig. 194. — Aramiges Fulleri, Horn. After Division 

 of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



spread over the lawns, and was followed by a heavy rain. Next 

 day immense numbers of beetles (Sphenophorus parvulus Gyll. ) 

 could be seen upon all the sidewalks and seats on and about the 

 lawn ; they were evidently driven out of the ground by this of- 

 fensive manure. Perhaps this experience might show us a meth- 

 od by which we could combat this and similar insects. 



Two other species of the genus Otiorhyiiclnts (O. sulcatus 

 Fab., and O. picipcs Fab.), as well as Thricolepis simulator Horn, 

 are known to injure the apple elsewhere. 



