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When the berries ripen remove the cloth, fold and tie it up neatly. Well handled 

 it will last three years. The stakes should be pulled up and kept where the hooks 

 will not rust too badly. 



The coveriug in any case should be placed over the beds before the 

 plants begin to blossom and attract the beetle, and may be removed 

 when the crop is harvested. If so crude a remedy as old newspapers 

 be used, these would probably better be removed after remaining for 

 two or three weeks. 



It has for some time been customary to burn over strawberry beds 

 as soon as the fi'uit has been harvested, as a preventive of rust and 

 various insects. This is a most excellent practice, but is probably of 

 little avail against the StraAvberry Weevil, as by the time the berries 

 are picked the insects have i)ractically all left the vines. 



It is earnestly requested that such of our readers as may have an 

 opportunity during the coming season to test the remedies herein sug- 

 gested will report results, 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PARASITES MENTIONED. 



Bracon anthonomi sp. n. Ashmead. 



Male. — Length, 2""". Brownish-yellow ; stemmaticum, occipi^t, and antennse black ; 

 antennae 26-jointed, a little longer than the body, with the flagellar joints about 

 twice as long as thick. Thorax smooth, polished, the mesonotum trilobed, the lateral 

 lobes being slightly dusky near the tegulte. Wings greyish-hyaline, the stigma and 

 venation fuscous; second abscissa of radius very slightly more than twice the length 

 ■of the first; recuri-ent nervure not interstitial, joining the first submarginal cell be- 

 fore its apex. Legs yellowish, pilose; last joint of anterior tarsi, middle and poste- 

 rior tarsi, and the posterior tibiae toAvard hips, fuscous. Abdomen elliptic-oval, 

 granulated, the first segment with a V-shaped sulcus, the inclosure thus formed 

 convexly elevated ; first and second segments about equal and a little longer than 

 the others ; following segments very slightly subequal. 



Hab. : Washington, D. 0. 



Described from a single <? si)ecimen, reared June 8, 1892, from An- 

 ihonomus signatus. 



€atolaccus anthonomi sp. n. Ashmead. 



Female. — Length, 2.8'"". Blue; head and thorax faintly tinged with metallic 

 green ; flagellum brown ; scape, trochanters, tips of femora, and the tibiae and tarsi 

 honey-yellow ; coxae and femora '^"^^^^tc^sc^ x^cesia^^^ 



bluish, the hind coxaB punctate, the v ^<^^ ^.^ 



inner ridge with a fine pubescence. ^ ^^ ^ GrA^-y ^ _,„-'-^^ ^ 



Head and thorax confluently punc- [ '°**^''''^^>0^=v^^^t====o-<^'*'^^ ) 



tate; frons impressed; ocelli red; \ ~-^ V^^^^ — C^^^^*^^ --'" J 



clypeus sinuate at the middle. An- ^<zz^lS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^s^^^:^' ^y 



tenna; 13-jointed, inserted on the "d^ >''*^'^^\rv. J^ 



middle of the face; scape slender, 7^ ' /yAt-l^v^ 



cylindrical, about half the length Ji (^ [- lr~i ^ v^ ' [ " 



of the flagellum; pedicel smaller I \|-/ / ^ 



and slenderer than the first flagel- Vy y/ // 



lar joint; flagellum cylindrical of f ^ \ 



nearly a uniform thickness through- / \ 



out, the club being scarcely thicker Sia.n .—Catolaccus anthonomi Ashm., enlarged (original). 



