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culio, and though it can occasionally be brought down, it generally 

 remains defiantly on the fruit or on the bough, through the gentlest 

 as well as the severest jarring of the tree. Indeed, its habit of trans- 

 forming in the fruit, places it in a great measure beyond our control, 

 and I fear that this is one of the few insects with which we can do 

 but little by artificial means. But we have only just commenced to 

 understand this foe, and there is much yet to learn about it. I sin- 

 cerely hope that the few facts which have been here given, will in- 

 crease the reader's interest in this insect and enable him to carry on fu- 

 ture observations and experiments with a better understanding; so 

 that they will at last result in making us masters of this rather difficult 

 situation. Mr. H. Lewelling, of High Hill, Montgomery county, Mis 

 souri, who has had much of his fruit injured by this insect, informs me 

 that Tallman's Sweet is preferred by it to all other varieties, and our 

 observations should, as much as possible, tend in the direction of de- 

 ciding which varieties are most subject to, and which most exempt 

 from its attacks ; and which varieties fall most readily when infested 

 by it. For it is obvious that with our present knowledge, the only 

 real remedy which yet exists, is the destruction of the infested fruit, 

 whether upon or off the tree; and it may turn out that although we 

 cannot jar down the beetles, we can jar down much of the infested 

 fruit, which would, without jarring, remain on the trees. 



Anthonomus quadrigibbus, Say — Larva (Fig. 11, b) — Average dorsal length when full grown 

 0.45 inch ; soft and white, with a very few sparse soft hairs ; arched and wrinkled Lamellicorn- 

 fashion, the space between the wrinkles, and a distinct dorsal vascular line, bluish-black. Head 

 free and almost perpendicular, yellowish-brown with the mandibles darker. A pair of polished 

 ventral tubercles on each of the three thoracic joints, and each bearing a distinct bristle. 



I'upa (Fig. 11, a) — Average length 0.40 inch. Whitish, the snout of § reaching beyond 

 tip of wing-cases, that of ■$ not much beyond the elbow of middle femora and tibia;. Thorax 

 with a few short stiff hairs springing from slight conical elevations. Wing-cases showing the 

 stria; and humps of future beetle, the tip of the upper case usually terminating in a thorn. The 

 nine abdominal joints deeply ana distinctly separated, the first showing a rounded scuttellar tur- 

 hercle ; the sides angular, conically ridged and armed on each joint with two brown thorns or 

 bristles, which become stouter towards apex ; a transverse dorsal row of about eight similar bris- 

 tles on the posterior sub-margin of each joint, also becoming larger towards apex : Terminal sub- 

 segaent ending in one stout, slightly curved, thorn. 



THE QUINCE C\JRCTJLIO—Co?wtrachehis cratcegi, Walsh. 



HOW IT DIFFERS FROM THE OTHERS. 



This insect has been called the Quince Curculio by Dr. Trimble, 

 and though it breeds in other fruits, the name is a good one as it will 

 enable us to distinguish it at once from our other fruit snout-beetles. 

 I have had the beetle in my cabinet for several years, but knew noth- 

 ing of its larval history till a year ago last fall. It breeds very abund- 

 antly in our common haws, and I raised a number of them the pres- 



