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that at this point only a very thin membrane has been left by the 

 larva, through which the adult beetle is to make its way into the 

 outer world. Showing through the membrane is the dark, excre- 

 mentitious matter filling up the cell. If the beans are dark, 

 these spots do not show so plainly. 



Remedies. — Same as for Pea Weevil. 



Kansas Notes. — Prof. E. A. Popenoe gave this pest attention 

 in the Second Annual Report of the Experiment Station, Kan- 

 sas iVgricultural College, for the year 1889 (p. 206 et seq.) He 

 states that Limas, English beans and the French asparagus bean 

 are practically exempt from attack, as far as his observation 

 goes ; in a few cases weevils were found to have developed in the 

 large white Limas. Professor Popenoe's observations on the ger- 

 minating power of the weeviled beans contradict the statements of 

 earlier writers, notably Dr. Riley ,^^ in that 47 per cent, of the 

 weeviled beans coming under Professor Popenoe's observation in 

 the summer of 1889 were without germinating power, the plu- 

 mule, radicle, and cotyledons, constituting the resting germ of the 

 bean, all suffering from the attack of the weevil. Professor 

 Popenoe recommends killing the weevils when the beans are 

 first stored, as it is evident that the beetles continue to breed and 

 develop in the dry, stored beans, thus increasing in numbers and 

 in destructive eflect. 



TOMATO -WORM. 

 {Phlegethontius caroZma. Linn. ; Order, Coleoptera.) 



Diagnosis. — Infesting tomatoes; a large, "ugly," green worm 

 (when full-grown three inches long), with several oblique, whit- 

 ish stripes on each side of the body and a prominent "horn" on 

 the tail, feeding on the leaves. Sometimes the worms are brown 

 instead of green. 



Description and Life-history. — The adult is a large, gray " hawk- 

 moth," with orange-colored spots along each side of the abdomen. 

 The moth has an expanse of wings of four or five inches. The 



*Dr. Riley, in Insect Life, vol. iv, p. 297, (June, 1892,) refers to Professor Popenoe's 

 experiments, saying that it is evident that weeviled peas and beans are unfit for seed. 



