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the end of the second abdominal ring. There are two rows of 

 teeth on the upper side of the abdominal rings ; they are obso- 

 lete beneath, the posterior row being indicated by two remote 

 minute tubercles. Length .25 of an inch. 



The moth is rather undersized, with yellow wings, without 

 any decided markings, but mottled with deep ochreous. It ex- 

 pands one-half of an inch. 



The Cranberry Weevil. — (PL 1, fig. 10, enlarged ; 10a, larva, 

 enlarged.) Mr. W. C. Fish has found this insect preying on cran- 

 berry buds, and communicated to me an account of its habits. 

 It was identified by Dr. J. L. Leconte as Anthonomuis suturalis, 

 Lee, and I extract the following description of it from my 

 " Guide to the Study of Insects," p. 487 : " It is a minute red- 

 dish-brown beetle, with the beak one-half as long as the body, 

 just beyond the middle of which the antennae are inserted. 

 The head is darker than the rest of the body, being brown 

 black. The thorax is a little darker than the elytra, and cov- 

 ered very sparsely with short whitish hairs ; the scutellum is 

 whitish, and the elytra are shining reddish-brown, with the 

 striae deeply punctured, the interstices being smooth. It is .13 

 of an inch long, including the beak. Mr. W. C. Fish detected 

 this little weevil laying its eggs in the buds of the cranberry. 

 It selects a bud not quite ready to open, and clinging to it, 

 works its snout deep into the centre of the bud. An egg is then 

 deposited in the hole made, when the beetle climbs to the stem 

 and cuts it off near where it joins the bud, which drops to the 

 ground and there decays, the egg hatching and the grub going 

 through its transformations within. The larva is long and 

 rather slender, cylindrical, the body being of uniform thickness 

 and curved ; the head is pale honey yellow ; the jaws tipped 

 with black ; the segments of the body are very convex, espe- 

 cially the prothoracic one ; it is white, with a few fine, pale 

 hairs, and is .08 of an inch in length." 



Mr. Fish, in an article on this insect, published in the " Yar- 

 mouth Register," states, in addition to what we have said above, 

 that the " egg, which may be found within the bud, is pale 

 honey yellow, and is very minute, measuring but .02 of an inch. 

 The egg hatching, a dull whitish grub will be found feeding 

 within the bud. Having attained its growth, it changes to a 

 pupa, and the perfect weevil eats its way out of the bud, leav- 



