rye 
To obtain new plants free from infection by any of these root-worms, 
it is best that they should be transplanted in spring, but there is a 
certain probability that even at that time they will contain the eggs 
of Colaspis. To rid the new field of these, it will be necessary to 
allow the first runners to set, and then to destroy the recently 
planted stools from which they sprang, leaving the field stocked only 
with new stools, formed since the plants were set out. 
c. By a black Snout-beetle. 
THe Buack Frurr-WEEVvIL. 
(Otiorhynchus sulcatus, Boh.) 
Order ConnorrerRA. Family OriorHyNcHID®. 
This is a Kuropean insect, well and unfavorably known to the 
gardeners of England and the Continent, and destructive, both in 
the larval and matured conditions, to a variety of horticultural pro- 
ducts. Itis in the former state that it attacks the strawberry, 
devouring the roots and penetrating the crown somewhat after the 
methods of the root-worms previously treated. 
Although it has not yet been observed in strawberry fields in 
America, and has not in fact been reported as an injurious species 
in this country, still it has been for some time established in the 
Eastern States, having been imported from the old world many 
years ago. It is proper, therefore, that such brief mention of it 
shall be made here as may serve to warn the fruit erower against 
it, since it has proven in its native home to be one of the most 
unmanageable of the insect enemies of horticulture. 
The larva is footless, like the crown-borer, and is described as 
yellowish white, with a brown head, and provided with brownish 
hairs. It is known to feed upon the roots of raspberries, straw- 
berries, and various garden plants, from midsummer until autumn. 
It hibernates in the larval stage and transforms in the following 
spring, emerging as a beetle in April or May. 
The adult is oblong, brown-black, sub-opaque, the surface sparsely 
and coarsely punctured, and sparsely hairy. The thorax is sub- 
cylindrical, widest in front of the middle, not longer than wide, 
covered with rounded, shining tubercles, each bearing a short hair. 
The elytra are broadly striated, and the strie coarsely punctured, 
the intervals each with a row of shining, rounded tubercles, rather 
closely placed, and with small patches of short, yellowish hair 
irregularly distributed. The body beneath is black and shining, and 
very sparsely hairy. The length is thirty-four hundredths of an 
inch. As the adult is wingless like the beetle of the crown-borer, 
its invasion of a field may be easily guarded against by proper 
precautions in transplanting. 
