THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 3D 



in its habits, and secretive during the day, so that the Ransom pro- 

 cess will undoubtedly prove effectual with it, if used at the right 

 ■season. All fruit that falls should be destroyed, and as we know that 

 the larva hibernates in the ground, many of them will be injured and 

 destroyed by late stirring of the soil. 



Conotbachelus crat.egi, Walsh — Larva— Average length -when full grown 0.32 inch ; 4£ times 

 as long as wide, and straight. Opaque whitish, with a narrow dusky dorsal line, generally obso- 

 lete on thorax, and a f«w very short hairs. Distinct lateral tubercles on all the joints. Head 

 rufous with mandibles black, except at base, and distinctly two-toothed at tip. 



Pupa — Average length 0.28 inch. Snout reaching a little beyond elbow of middle tibia) and' 

 •tarsi, with two stout rufous thorns near the origin of antennae, two more at base and sometimes" 

 ■others more toward the tip- Head and thorax also armed with such thorns, and also two to each 

 ■elbow of the femora and tibiae. Wing cases with rows of short rufous bristles along the elevations 

 between the stria;. Abdomen cylindrical, the basal joint with a central scutellar bristleless 

 tubercle and two others, one each side of it, each bearing a bristle ; the other joints conically 

 tubercled, laterally, each tubercle bearing a stout bristle, and each joint bearing -dorsally about four 

 other bristles on its posterior sub-margin. Terminal sub-segment squarely cat off and bearing two 

 ■stout inwardly-curved brown thorns. 



THE PLUM GOXJGER.—Antho?wmuspru?iicida, Walsh. 



ITS CHARACTER, DISTRIBUTION, AND FOOD. 



This isame was given by Mr. "Walsh to another indigenous weevil 

 which is represented enlarged in the accompanying illustration (Fig. 

 [Fig. 13.] 13). It is easily distinguished from either of the pre- 



C V T V >? ceding weevils, by its ochre-yellow thorax and legs, 



and its darker wing-covers, which are dun-colored, 

 or brown with a leaden-gray tint, and have no 

 humps at all. Its snout is not much longer than the 

 thorax, but as in the Apple Curculio, projects for- 

 wards, or downwards but cannot be bent under as 

 in the Plum Curculio. This insect was first described in the Prairie 

 Farmer for June 13th, 1863, and the description was afterwards repub- 

 lished in the Proceedings ot the Boston Society of Natural History for 

 February, 1864. 



Mr. Walsh gave such a good account of it in his report as Acting 

 State Entomologist of Illinois, that it is unnecessary for me to go into 

 detail, and I will therefore only briefly allude to those traits in its his- 

 tory which are well established. 



The Plum Gouger seems to be unknown in the Eastern States, or 

 at least is not common there ; but it is very generally distributed 

 throughout the Valley of the Mississippi. As a rule it is much less 

 common and does much less injury than the little Turk, though in 

 some few districts it is found equally abundant, and I received speci- 

 mens on the first of June last, from my esteemed correspondent Mr. 



