GENUINE SNOUT- BEETLES. 



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at (/ in the illustration, eating upwards under the hark ; afterwards 

 she turns round and places an egg in the opening. The larva, b, 

 is a soft, foot-les.s grub, of a pale-yellow color, with a tawny head. 



There is hut one safe way to destroy this hectic; it has to he 

 caught by jarring, the same way as our plum-cufcnlio, since il 

 also has the habit of dropping' to the ground when alarmed, as 

 most other snout-hectles do. Paris-green and London-purple, ap- 

 plied in such a way as to make them stick to the tender twigs 

 and hranches, will also kill large numbers of this mischief maker. 



There is a group of small beetles, (Apion), the larva 1 of 

 which usually feed in the seeds of plants, as in those of the false 

 indigo, (Baptisia tinctoria), the seeds of the locust, and others. 

 To show how these beetles look one has been illustrated, and well 

 shows their peculiar form (Fig. 197). They are equipped with 

 a long and slender projecting beak, have straight feelers, and 



Fig. 198. — Phytonomus punctatus, Fab. — After Divis/on of Entomology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



