< June 16, 1885, ete were very Sheed at Mty Pulaski, in Central 
Illinois, in the kernels of ears left in the field which had been turned 
under by the plow and had commenced to grow. May 16, 1887, a num- 
___ber were taken in a similar situation from a mass of sprouting corn at 
- Urbana, Il. 
As an adult, this species was reported by Walsh in 1867,* on the 
2 testimony of an anonymous correspondent, to have done an ‘extensive 
injury some years before to sweet corn in Minnesota by burrowing in 
the ear; and Dr. John Hamilton, of Toronto, Canada, sayst that it is 
_ often found in the green ears of maize, but only in such as have been 
injured by birds or other animals. September 13, 1893, it was brought 
to my office by an assistant, Mr. Marten, with several injured kernels 
_ of corn, from the exposed tip of the ear, which the beetle had burrowed 
into or eaten away irregularly. In one other case reported under this 
same date it was found burrowing into doughy grains beneath the husk, 
more than an inch from the nearest exposed kernels, the natural in- 
ference being that the grains had not been previously injured. This 
very common species must consequently be classed as one of the minor 
insect enemies of corn, which it injures both as larva and adult—much 
-_- more seriously, however, in the former stage. 
a Injuries to other valuable plants and fruits were first reported by 
Walsh in 1867,{ to whom a correspondent sent the beetle with the state- 
ment that it had-eaten into apples and pears, apparently burrowing in 
holes made by some other insect or a bird, as many as ten or twelve 
occurring in a single hole. A similar report as to the pear was made 
in 1870 by a correspondent of Dr. Riley, who found the beetle entering 
the fruit by way of the calyx.§ 
By Dr. Cyrus Thomas, State Entomologist of Hlinois, it is said**— 
again on the authority of a correspondent—to have injured apples in 
1876—principally the early varieties, puncturing the skin, and eating 
__ its way to the center, dozens of them being sometimes found in a single 
apple. By one of my most valued correspondents, Mr. Benjamin Buck- 
man, of Farmingdale, Ill., this beetle was reported to me July 14, 1884, 
as a “never-ending nuisance from eating into ripe apples, pears, rasp- 
berries, blackberries, etc.,” on his place. 
By Packard it was said in 1883 to occur in the roots of the squash, 
- seemingly in both larva and imago states;t+ and Dr. Lintner, State 
___ Entomologist of New York, mentions in his Sixth Report (p. 188) the 
receipt from Prof. C. H. Peck of several examples of this species taken 
July 4, eating into squash vines. Other foods of the adult are decaying 
- =..corn stalks, cabbage, and other plants, the oozing sap of trees, the blos- 
- soms of composite plants, and the pollen and anthers of corn. It fre- 
quently follows the corn worm and other burrowing larve into corn and 
other vegetation, feeding probably upon exuding sap and excrement; 
7 Rrac. ent. Vol—1f., p: 56) 
7 Can. Ent. Vol. SACL: (1885), p. 46. 
Prac bnt.-Vols L., p.56 
§ Amer. Ent. Vol. Th, 1870, p. 308. 
** Sixth Rep. State Ent. TM; -18%5=76,. ps 91. 
77 Guide to Study of Insects, 1888, p. 445. 
