GENUINE SNOUT- BEETLES. 



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at (/ in the illustration, eating upwards under the hark ; afterwards 

 she turns round and plaees an egg" in the opening. The larva, b, 

 is a soft, foot-less grub, of a pale-yellow color, with a tawny head. 



There is but one safe way to destroy this beetle; it has to he 

 cjiught by jarring, the same way as our pluni-cnrculio, since it 

 also has the habit of dropping to the ground when alarmed, as 

 most other snout-beetles do. Paris-green and London-purple, ap- 

 plied in such a way as to make them stick to the tender twigs 

 and branches,' will also kill large numbers of this mischief maker. 



There is a group of small beetles, (Apioii), the larvcis of 

 which usually feed in the seeds of plants, as in those of the false 

 indigo, fBapfisia tiucforia), the seeds of the locust, and others. 

 To show how these Ijeetles look one has been illustrated, and well 

 shows their peculiar form (Fig. 197)- They are equipped with 

 a long and slender projecting beak, have straight feelers, and 



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Fig. 198. — Phytonomus piinctatus, Fab. — After Divis/on of Entomology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



