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periment with it another season, and report their success im the agri- 
‘cultural journals. The old remedy of keeping hogs in a plum, peach, 
or apple orchard, to eat the infested fruit as soon as it falls to the 
ground, appears from our correspondence to be very successful when 
practiced tor two or three years, and where there are no other orchards 
in the vicinity. . 
A small, dark-colored, rather broad curculio, Coliodes 
incequalis, (Say,) deposits an egg in or on the fruit of the 
_grape in June or July. The larva burrows into the berry, 
X. and usually gnaws away a part of one of the seeds. The 
infested berry does not rot or decay, and the first sign of 
the fruit being stung is a dark circular dot in the midst 
of a colored spot, as if ared-hot needle or pin had been thrust into the 
berry. When the larva has attained its growth, it drops out of the 
fruit, and buries itself a short distance in the earth. The pupa is 
formed in a small cell a little below the surface of the ground. The in- 
sect appears in September, and the females probably hybernate in shel- 
tered places. To destroy this beetle all infested berries should be sought 
out, and either burned or erushed under foot as soon as observed, and 
before the larva has made its escape. 
Chestnuts, hazel, and other nuts are frequently found to contain a 
Fig. 13. White, fleshy, tootless grub. These are the larve of long- 
snouted, brownish-gray beetles, Balaninus nasieus, B. ree- 
tus, &e. The egg is deposited by the female in a hole 
*\ drilled in the nut or acorn by the long beak of the inseet, 
4 when the fruit is young and tender. The larva feeds 
inside upon the substance, and, when fully grown, leaves 
the nut and burrows in the earth, where the pupa is 
formed. There are said to be two broods, the last one 
probably hybernating in the earth. Mr. Akhurst, of 
Brooklyn, New York, who has made some experiments im 
2 breeding these insects from acorns, states that they some- 
times remain in the larva state over one season, and last autump he 
exhibited larvee which had been bred from acorns the previous season, 
Fig. 14. The perfect insect of another small curculio, Anthonomus ~ 
~, quadrigibbus, (Say,) is accused of eating round holes in 
aN apples, plums, &e., both for food and as a place in whieh 
f HEN to deposit her eggs. In the American Eutomologist, how- 
rr ever, it is stated that it never attacks stone fruit, and 
never goes into the ground to change into the pupa state, but 
transforms in the fruit itself. Another of this genus, Anthonomus 
suturalis, (Lec.,) described by Mr. W.C. Fish, in a report to the Cape 
Cod Cranberry Grower’s Association, is called the cranberry weevil. 
The female deposits its eggs, about. the middle of May, in the bads of 
the cranberry. Selecting a bud not quite ready to open, and clinging 
to it, she works her snout deep into its center; an egg is then deposited 
in the hole thus made; the beetle climbs the stem, and cuts it off near 
where it joins the bud, and the shoot drops to the ground. The larva 
feeds inside the bud and the weevil, when mature, eats its way out. 
The pertect insect is also said to eat into the fruit. The only remedy 
that could be suggested, should the inseet become troublesome, is to 
flood the cranberry pateh, if possible, for a short time, provided it does 
not occur at aperiod when the future crop might be injured by being 
under water. 
The perfeet beetle of the plum-gouger, Anthonomus (prunicida, Walsh,) 
seutellaris, (Lec.,) bores a round hole, resembling the puncture of a pin, 
