lid 
b. A brown caterpillar, striped with white. 
THe Stank Borer (Gortyna nitela, Guenée.) 
Order Lepipoprera. Family Nocrurpm. 
[Plate VI, Fig. 4.] 
Concerning the work in-the strawberry field of this well-known 
and wide-spread insect, I can add nothing to the mere mention 
made by Prof. Riley in his Third Report as State Entomologist of 
Missouri,—that it sometimes bores into ripe strawberries. It is very 
unlikely that it could do any noticeable damage in this way, unless 
its breeding had been encouraged by permitting the unrestrained 
growth of thick-stemmed weeds in or near the strawberry field. 
THE STRAWBERRY WEEVIL (Anthonomus musculus, Say.) 
Order CoLtropTErRA. Family Curcunionip™. 
Under the above caption, Prof. A. J. Cook, of the State Agricultural 
College of Michigan, announces in the Report of the Michigan Horti- 
cultural Society for 1883 the appearance in that State of a “new straw- 
berry pest,” which was said by a fruit grower to be ruining his 
entire strawberry crop in July, by puncturing the fruit. Anthonomus 
musculus and a number of related species occur also in Illinois, and 
we are therefore liable to the same injuries which have attracted 
attention in Michigan. In the absence of any further information 
concerning this matter, I quote from the article of Prof. Cook: 
“This strawberry weevil, of which I can find no mention anywhere 
as a strawberry pest, proves to be Anthonomus musculus, and was 
described by Thomas Say many years ago. His description is as 
follows: Dull rufous; scutel and elytral spotted bands whitish. 
Inhabits United States. Body more or less dull rufous, or piceous, 
punctured. Head piceous; rostrum with elevated lines; antenne 
rufous ; club dusky; thorax piceous, very much crowded with punc- 
tures; small recurved, distant whitish hairs; scutel oval white; 
elytra with oval impressed striz of large punctures; rufous with the 
edge piceous; two or three undulated macular whitish bands of short 
hairs; beneath piceous; feet rufous. Length, including rostrum, 
-l of an inch. Variety an obscure piceous, almost black; bands 
obvious. ‘This varies considerably in its depth of coloring. 
This description, like all of Say’s, leaves little to be desired. Of 
those sent me all are black but one, which is very reddish, and 
without the maculate lines. Mine are also a little longer, three 
mm., or nearly one-eighth of an inch long. 
Of the natural history of this insect I as yet know nothing.” 
