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sparsely scaly. Rostrum with feeble ridge on each side from the tip 

 nearly to the eyes. Thorax cylindrical, apex and base equal and 

 truncate, very slightly wider than long, sides feebly arcuate, a fine median 

 line, disc moderately convex, densely punctured, sparsely scaly. Elytra 

 regularly oval, humeri entirely obliterated, base sub-truncate, surface 

 indistinctly striate, and with rows of large, moderately closely placed 

 punctures, intervals flat, not densely scaly, and with very minute sub- 

 erect hairs ; scales dark brown, a whitish or paler stripe beginning at the 

 humerus, passing along the lateral margin, ending in a short oblique 

 fascia at the middle of the elytra. Body beneath sparsely scaly. Legs 

 with scale-like hairs. Anterior tibiae rather strongly denticulate within, 

 articular surfaces of middle tibiae not ascendant. Length, o. 26 inch ; 

 6.5 mm. 



Remedies. 



The best method by which to meet the depredations of this insect, 

 so far as known at the present, is to hunt for the beetles upon their 

 food-plants, and to destroy them. If this be persistently done, the evil 

 can be arrested. Mr. Chatfield informs me that by diligently searching 

 for and killing all that he could find, for two or three successive years, 

 he believes that he has exterminated them from his plant-houses, as he 

 has not noticed them for the past two or three years. 



Various experiments have been made with a view of killing the larvje 

 while preying upon the roots, but the opinion seems to prevail, as the 

 result of such efforts, that it is only to be done at the sacrifice of the 

 plant. A rose-bush which is known to be badly attacked at the roots 

 had better be at once taken up and burned, and the soil that contained 

 it treated with some caustic substance or with heat, to destroy such 

 larvae as may have been left behind. 



If the eggs — which are described as smooth, soft, of a clear yellow 

 color, and elongate-elliptical in shape — are carefully looked for in the 

 places where they are usually hidden, they may be found and readily 

 destroyed, and the injuries of the insect materially checked. Prof. 

 Riley has recommended placing traps for the eggs, of pieces of paper or 

 rags, wound about the trunks, or upon sticks thrust in the ground near 

 them, to be collected at intervals of not exceeding three weeks, for the 

 destruction of the eggs that may have been deposited upon them, by 

 burning, or, if it is desired to use the traps again, by dipping them into 

 hot water. 



CosmopepJii oarnifex (Fabr.). 



(Ord. Hemiptera: Subord. Heteroptera: Fam. Cydnid^. ) 



Cimex carrdfex Fabr.: Eut. Syst. Siippl., 1794, p. 535, No. 162. 

 Eysarcoris cariiifex Hahn: Wanz. lus. ii, p. 117, f. 198. 



