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Contents of an infested bean, 273, Conclusion of the history of 

 the brood, 273. A dwarfed beetle frona insufiQcient food, 273. There 

 may be four or five broods a year, 273. How the larva enters the 

 bean, 273. How the beetle is released from the bean, 274. The 

 construction of the lid, for exit, 274. The lid is not cut by the 

 larva, but by the beetle, 274. Kemedies, 275. Keeping over until 

 the second year is no remedy, 275. No preventive of egg-deposit 

 known, 275. The insect should be killed upon the gathering of the 

 crop, 275. May be done by heat, 275. By kerosene, 276. Bisul- 

 phide of carbon, 276. The Tracy house for treating infested or 

 suspected beans, 277. What should be the insect's name? 277. 

 Reasons why it should be known as B. fabce Fitch instead of 

 B. obsoletus Say. 277-8. Why the latter name is retained in the 

 present paper, 278. Possibility that both may fall before an 

 older name, 279. 



Bruchus rufimanus, the European Bean-Weevil 279 



Bibliography, 279. A common European insect, 280. Illustra- 

 tion of its stages, 280. Its destructiveness to pease and beans, 280. 

 Introduced into the United States many years ago, 281 . Not yet 

 naturalized, 281. The authentic records of its occurrence, 281. 

 Imported in New Jersey from Switzerland, 281. Observed in 

 Canada, 281. Dr. Packard's identification of it erroneous, 281. 

 Wrongly reported from Tennessee, 281. Its ascribed parasite was 

 from B. scutellaris,282. The confusion in the synonymy of the 

 insect, 282. Curtis' figures of it, 282. Miss Ormerod on its 

 synonymy, 283. Authenticated examples received from Europe, 

 284. Mr. Janson and Dr. Hamilton quoted on it, 284. Its synonymy 

 not yet entirely settled, 284. Its distribution, 284. Eemedies, 285. 



Bruchus lentis, the Lentil Weevil 285 



Bibliography, 285. Observed at Buffalo, N. Y., 285. Associated 

 with another species, 285 . Compared with B. ruflmanus Bohem . , 

 286. Identified in Europe, 286. Description by Baudi, 287. Of 

 not much economic importance, 287. The sale of lentils, 287. 

 Their cultivation not a success in Canada, 288. What the lentil is, 

 288. Grown as a field-crop in Wisconsin, 288. 



CoNOTRACHELUS NENUPHAR, the Plum curcullo 288 



Eeference to the more important publications on the insect, 288. 

 Its abundant literature, 289 . The many remedies proposed for it, 



