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

 readily mistaken for the Hylohius ^mIgs is the Otiorhynchiis sul- 

 catus of Fabricius (Fig. 46-4), which is of mnch the same color, 

 but with a thicker body. 



Tlie Plum Gouger, Antlionomus 2)runicicla AValsh, 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 live or six, from 

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

 in the pulp, it devours the kernel and usually' transforms inside 

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

 ochre-yellow ; the head aiul hinder parts slate-color, the latter 

 with irregiUar 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 hnngs 

 perpendicularly downwards." (Walsh.) yl. sycoplianta 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 3'oung larva of the gall-making Nematus, just as A. cra- 

 tcegi Walsh evidently does ; Avhicli was found in an inidescribed 

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

 yi. scutellatus Schonh. gradually destro3's the 3'oung plant-lice 

 among which it lives ; otherwise the two larvjB would exist in 

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

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

 stant species and easily recognizable by the tessellate appear- 

 ance of the elytra." A. quaclrigibbns Say punctures the apple, 

 making from one to twent}^ holes in the fruit. 



The Cranberry wee\il, as we may call it, or the Antlionomus 

 sutiircdis Lee, is a minute reddish brown beetle, witii the beak 

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

 the antenna? are inserted. The head is darker than the rest 

 of the body, being In-own black. The thorax is a little darker 

 than the elytra and covered ver}' sparsely with short whitish 

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

 dish brown, with the strite deeply punctured, the interstices 

 being smooth. It is .13 of an inch long including the l)eak. 

 Mr. W. C. Fish writes me that in the middle of Jul}' he 



