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beetles, whose antennae are fixed jvist Ijefore the eyes at the 

 base of the snout. 



CurcuUo i^Pandeleteius) hilaris of Herbst (Fig. 35), which 

 we may call the gray-sided Curculio, is a little pale-brown 

 beetle, variegated with gray upon the sides. Its 

 snout is short, broad, and slightly furrowed in 

 the middle ; there are three blackish stripes on 

 the thorax, between which are two of a lisht 

 gray color ; the wing-covers have a broad stripe 

 of light gray on the outer side, edged within by 

 a slender blackish line, and sending two short 

 oblique branches almost across each wing-cover ; 

 and the fore-legs are much larger than the others. The 

 length of this beetle varies from one eighth to one fifth of 

 an inch. The larva lives in the trunks of the wdiite oak, on 

 which the beetles may be found about the last of May and 

 the beginning of June. 



The Pales weevil, Curculio (^Hylohius) Pales of Herbst 

 J,, gg (Fig. 36), is a beetle of a deep chestnut-brown 



color, having a line and a few dots of a yellow- 

 ish-white color on the thorax, and many small 

 yellowish-white spots sprinkled over the wing- 

 covers. All the thighs are toothed beneath, 

 and the snout is slender, cylindrical, inclined, 

 and nearly as long as the thorax. On account 

 of the length of the snout this insect has been 

 placed in the genus lihyncluvnus by some nat- 

 uralists ; but the antennas are implanted before the midtUe of 

 the snout, and not far fi*om the sides of the mouth. This 

 beetle measures from two to three eighths of an inch in 

 length, exckisive of the snout. It may be found in great 

 abundance, in May and June, on board-fences, the sides 

 of new wooden buildings, and on the trunks of pine-trees. 

 I have discovered them, in considerable numbers, under 

 the bark of the pitch-pine. The larvae, which do not mate- 

 rially differ from those of other weevils, inhabit these and 



