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body remains yellowish ; the dorsal line becomes tinged with rose 
color and edged with blackish rose ; length 8 to 14 mm. The cocoon 
is oval (Fig. 14), 9-10 mm. long and 6.5-7 mm. broad, and is com- 
posed of a coarse network of brownish threads. 
The newly formed pupa (Fig. 15) has a yellowish green head, 
small black eyes, and yellow antennae, legs, and wing-pads. The abdo- 
men is dark green with a pale dorsal line, and bears numerous hairs at 
its extremity and a transverse series of dorsal setse on each of its seg- 
ments. 
The beetle (Fig. 16) is a stout, oval, brown, finely punctured cur- 
culio. The female is about 8 mm. in length and 4.5 mm. in greatest 
width, some specimens being as long as 8.5 mm. The prevailing color 
Fig. 15. 
Fig. 16. • 
Clover Leaf-weevil, Phytonomus punctatus: Fig. 15, pupa; Fig. 16, beetle. 
Greatly enlarged. 
above is brown, but the sides of the prothorax and elytra are washed 
with pale yellowish brown, which on the elytra covers the outer five 
interspaces. Occasionally there is a pale sutural line. The elytra are 
marked above with small black spots, due to scales which occur at regu- 
lar intervals on the interspaces. The prothorax is much narrower than 
the abdomen, subquadrate, and one fifth broader than long, with the 
sides rounding anteriorly and converging slightly posteriorly. The 
pronotum has three pale longitudinal lines, one in the middle and one 
on each side. The eyes are transverse. The beak is half as long 
again as the head, stout and curved, with deep antennal grooves. The 
scales and the short sparse setse of the body are either brown or yel- 
low. 
The male, 7 mm. in maximum length, diflfers from the female in 
being smaller and narrower, with the sides of the elytra less rounded ; 
