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them, Cryptus inquisitor (Say) (Fig. 227), is about two fiftlis of 

 an inch long, the other, Hemiteles thyyidoptenjx Riley, is about 

 one-third of an inch long; the male is shown in Fig. 228, 

 the female in Fig. 229, both magnified. Fiv^e or six of this 



Fig. 227. 



Fig. 228. 



Fig. 229. 



Fig. 230. 



latter species will sometimes occupy the body of a single 

 caterpillar. After destroying their victim they spin for them- 

 selves tough, white, silken cocoons within the bag, a section 

 of which is shown in Fig. 230. 



Fig. 231. 



ATTACKING THE TRUIT. 



No. 121. — The Quince Curculio. 



Conoti-acliehis cratcegi Walsh. 



This is a broad-shouldered snout-beetle, laro;er than the 

 plum curculio. No. 94, and has a longer snout ; in Fig. 231, a 

 shows a side view of the insect, b a back view. It is of an 

 ash-gray color, uiottled with ochre-yel- 

 low and whitish, with a dusky almost 

 triangular spot at the base of the 

 thorax above, and seven narrow longi- 

 tudinal elevations on the wing-covers, 

 with two rows of dots between each. 

 It is an indigenous insect, having its 

 home in the wild liaws, in which it is 

 frequently found, but it is also very 



injurious to the quince. It appears during the month of 

 June, and punctures the young fruit, making a cylindrical 



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