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

 readily mistaken for the Hi/lobias jndes is the Otiorhynchus sul- 

 catiis of Fabricins (Fig. 464), which is of much the same color, 

 but with a thicker bod}-. 



The Plum Gouger, Anthonomus prunkida Walsh, resembles 

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

 equidly as common in Northern and Central Illinois. It makes 

 a round puncture in the plum, somethiies five 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 pluin gouger is 

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

 with irregular Avhite and black spots. In counnon 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 Avas bred by Mr. Walsh from the galls of 

 various saw-flies found on the willow, and he sui^poses 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 destroys the young plant-lice 

 among which it lives ; otherwise the two larvre 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 elytra." A. quadrkjibhus Say punctures the apple, 

 making from one to twenty holes in the fruit. 



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

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

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

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

 of the body, being brown 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 striae deeply punctured, the interstices 

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

 Mr. W. C. Fish writes me tluit in tlie middle of July he 



