THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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The Curculio is not even safe from the attacks of cannibals when 



underground, for the larva 

 which is represented of the 

 natural size at Figure 22, J., 

 seeks it in its hiding place 

 and mercilessly devours it. 

 This larva is of a shining 



A® i\mjj /Ifg 

 brown-black color above, and dull whitish beneath, and I subjoin here- 

 with the technical description: 



Shining brown-black and horny above ; thorax immaculate above ; sutures and sides of the 

 abdominal dorsum, and all beneath, except the head, pale dull greenish white ; a narrow, horny, 

 elongate, abbreviated lateral dark stripe on the dorsum of each of the abdominal joints (4—12) ; 

 joints 4—10 beneath, each with seven pale-brown horny spots, namely, a large subquadrate spot fol- 

 lowed by two small dots in the middle, an elongate spot on each side, and between that and the two 

 medial small dots a second elongate spot, only half the length and breadth of the lateral one (Fig* 

 22, j); joint 11 beneath has only the medial subquadrate spot and the lateral elongate one (Fig. 

 22, i); and joint 12 beneath has nothing but the subquadrate spot (Fig. 22, ft); legs six, of a pale 

 rufous color ; the usual elongate carabidous proleg on joint 12, and on each side of its tip an elongate 

 exarticulate cercus, garnished with a few hairs; antennas four-jointed; labial palpi two-jointed ; 

 maxillary palpi four-jointed. Length 1.25 inch. 



This larva has not yet been bred to the perfect state, but belongs 

 undoubtedly to some one of the Ground-beetles, and not improbably 

 [Fig. 23.] to the Pennsylvania Ground-beetle, (JIarpalus penn- 

 sylvanicus, DeGeer),adull black species represented 

 at Figure 23. All these Ground-beetles are our 

 ""friends however, and should always be cherished and 

 not crushed, as they are very apt to be from their 

 habit of crawling and living on the ground. It is 

 safe to infer, that all beetles approaching the annexed 

 form, with active movements, and generally dull 

 colors, which are observed running over the ground? 

 are friends, and should therefore be saved. 



Hogs. — Before leaving the subject of natural remedies, I feel in 

 duty bound to say a few words in favor of hogs as Curculio destroyers. 

 Abundant proof might be adduced of their utility in an orchard, es- 

 pecially during the fruit season, but I will mention only the case of 

 Messrs. Winters Bros., of Du Quoin, Ills. These gentlemen, for the 

 past five years, have kept a large drove of hogs in their extensive 

 peach orchard, and have been remarkably exempt from the attacks of 

 the Little Turk. While at their place last fall, I noticed that all the 

 trees were banked up with' earth to the height of over a foot, which 

 prevented the hogs from injuring the trunks. They have never had 

 occasion to shake their trees, and consider one hog to the acre suffi- 

 cient to devour all the fallen fruit, the hogs being fed only during the 

 winter. The efficacy of this hog remedy depends a great deal on how 

 much one's orchard is isolated from those of others, for it is very evi- 



* Explanation of Figure 22. — B represents the under side of the head, showing at c the upper 

 jaw (mandible), at the lower jaw (maasil), with its fonr-jointed feelers (palpi), at / the lower % 



,/.'.'..< ri ., with its two-jom.ted feelers {palpi), and at e the antenna. 



