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Yates and Wayne counties, its presence is not reported, and it is 

 probable that it does not occur there, at least to any noticeable extent, 

 for upon examples having been communicated to Mr. Robert J. Swan, 

 of Geneva, with an inquiry of their i)resence, answer was returned that 

 they had not been seen by him in the county, nor by Dr. Sturtevent, 

 Director of the N. Y. Agricultural Experiment Station, at Geneva. 



Should the insect continue to extend itself over the clover fields of 

 Central New York, with the rapidity of multiplication which it has 

 shown in the two localities where it has planted itself, it cannot fail of 

 proving a very injurious pest. 



A single example of the species was taken by me in Bennington, 

 Vermont (five miles beyond the line of Rensselaer county, N. Y. ), 

 about the middle of August. It was not recognized at the time of its 

 capture, nor until some weeks thereafter upon the examination of some 

 Coleoptera which had been set aside ; and after this interval the mode 

 of its occurrence could uot be recalled. It certainly was not found 

 upon clover. 



Remedies. 



As the larvfe will be found most numerous in the clover fields in the 

 month of May, it has been recommended as the best means of lessening 

 their injuries, that the clover should be heavily rolled at that time. 

 Plowing under badly infested fields at this time would doubtless be 

 still more effectual. The species seems to hibernate in the young larviB 

 state, and if it should be found practicable to burn the stubble during 

 the late autumn or early spring, its numbers would be materially re- 

 duced ; or the same result might possibly be attained by thorough 

 rolling, if the nature of the surface permitted recourse to this means. 



Sphenophorns sciilptilis Uhler. 



The Sc2it2)iured Corn-Curcnlio. 



(Ord. COLEOPTERA- Fam. CURCULIONIDiE.) 

 S. seulptilis Ueiler : in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1855, p. 416. 

 iS. venaius (Say), Fitch ; in Count. Gent., v. 1855, p 373, and in Cultivator for 



July, 1855, 3d Ser., iii, p. 221 ; in Count. Gent., x, 1857, p. 01 ; and in 



Cultivator, 3d Ser., v. Sept., 1857, p. 273 (an erroneous determination). 

 S. venatus. Geddes : iu Trana. N. Y. St. Agricul. Soc. for 1859, sis, ISGO, p. 



331 (determination after Fitch). 

 S. zem. Walsh : in Pract. Entomol., ii, 1867, pp. 117, 118. 

 S. zem. Glover : in Kept. Commia. Agricul. for 1870, (1871), p. 68. 

 S. zccB. Packard: Inj. Ins. New and Little Known, 1870, pp. 21, 23, pi. 1, f. 11; 



in Hayden's Ninth Ann. Kept. U. S. G.-G. Surv. Terr., for 1875, (1877), 



pp. 718, 719. 



