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The first published notice of its injuries of which I am aware 
occurs in Prof. Riley’s third report as State Entomologist of Mis- 
souri, published in 1871. ‘‘This insect,” he says, ‘“‘has done con- 
siderable damage to the strawberry crop in the southern portion of 
~Illmois, especially along the line of the [llnois Central Railroad; 
and I have seen evidence of its work in St. Louis county, Missouri. 
At the meeting of the Southern Dhnois Fruit Growers’ Association, 
held at South Pass in November, 1867, several complaints were 
made by parties from Anna and Makanda of a white worm which 
worked in the roots of their strawberries, and in 1868 the greater 
portion of the plants of a. ten acre field at Anna, belonging to Mr. 
Parker Karle, was destroyed by it.” He further states, partly from 
his own knowledge and partly from information received from 
strawberry growers, that the grub hatches from the middle of June 
to the middle of July in Southern Illinois, and later farther north, 
from an egg which, in all probability, is deposited in the crown of 
the plant, and that it immediately commences to bore its way down- 
wards into the pith. According to him, it undergoes its transforma- 
tions to the pupa and beetle stage within the root, the adult making 
its appearance above ground during the middle of August. He in- 
fers that the beetle feeds upon the leaves of the strawberry, but is 
doubtful whether it hibernates as a beetle or produces a second 
(autumnal) brood of the worm, hibernating in the roots in the larval 
stage. Little of importance has hitherto been added to this account, 
but repeated observations upon this insect, made by me since last 
August, have enabled me to clear up its fall and winter history, 
and to add some other facts of practical importance. 
DESCRIPTION. 
As already intimated, this insect, in the form in which it doés its 
injury, is the grub or larva of one of the snout beetles, belonging, in 
fact, to the same family as the peach curculio. It was first de- 
scribed by Prof. Riley, in the report already cited, and his desecrip- 
tion of the adult is herewith given. The larva and pupa are 
described from fresh materials obtained this fall from strawberry 
fields in Southern Illinois. 
 “Analeis [Tyloderma] fragarie, n. sp.—Imago.—Color deep chestnut- 
brown, subpolished, the elytra somewhat lighter. Head and rostrum 
dark, finely and densely punctate, and with short, coarse, fulvous hairs, 
longest at the tip of rostrum; antenne rather hghter towards base, 
10-jointed, the scape much thickened at apex, jomt 2 longest and 
robust, 3 moderately long, 4-7 short, 8-10 connate, and forming a 
stout club. Thorax dark, cylindrical, slightly swollen across the 
middle and uniformly covered with large thimble-like punctures, and 
with a few short, coarse, fulvous hairs, unusually arranged in three 
more or less distinct longitudinal lines; pectoral groove ending be- 
tween front legs. Abdomen with small remote punctures and hairs 
which are denser towards apex. Legs of equal shortness, and with 
shallow, dilated punctures and. uniform very short hairs. Elytra 
more yellowish-brown, dilated at the lower sides anteriorly, and with 
about nine deeply punctured striw, the striz themselves sometimes 
obsolete, more or less covered with coarse and short pale yellow 
