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References to such Articles, furnished by the Writer 

 TO various Agricultural Journals, as contain new 

 Facts in Economic Entomology. 



COLEOPTEEA. 

 Ips quadrisignata Say, attacks the growing ears of sweet corn. 

 (Illinois Prairie Farmer, about Sept. 1, 1860.) 



Chrysobothris femorata Fabr., and saperda vittata Say, 

 the two apple-tree borers. {Journal of the Illinois State Agric. Soc, 

 June, 1862, pp. 21-3.) 



Amphicerus (bostrichus) bicaudatus Say, bores apple-tree 

 twigs. (Prairie Farmer, about May 10, 1860, pp. 308-9, Avith fig- 

 ures.) 



Brachytarsus variegatus Say, parasitic (?) on a large orange- 

 colored cecidomyiade (?) larva in the stems of wheat. (Jour. III. 

 State Agr. Sac, March, 1862, pp. 8-12, with figures.) 



Ithycerus noveboracensis Forster, attacks the twigs of fruit- 

 trees in the nursery. (St. Louis Valley Farmer, Mai-ch, 1862, pp. 

 82-5, with figures.) 



Anthonomus prunicida Walsh, has the same habits as Conotra- 

 chelus Nenuphar Hbst. (the " curculio"), and equally common in 

 the valley of the Mississippi. (Prairie Farmer, June 13, 1863, and 

 July 11, 1863, p. 21, with figures.) 



"Anthonomus ( ?) prunicida n. sp. Black, with dense and long- 

 whitish pubescence. Head dark rufous, with whitish pubescence ; ros- 

 trum dark rufous impubescent, confluently punctate, and with a longi- 

 tudinal carina above and a longitudinal stria beneath, the sculptures in 

 one sex ( ? ?) ceasing at the insertion of the antennse. Prothorax dark ru- 

 fous, above with dense and long golden pubescence, beneath with short 

 whitish pubescence ; a wide, flattish, black, naked, dorsal carina, lan- 

 ceolate at tip and striate longitudinally, extending two-thirds of the dis- 

 tance to its tip. Elytra black, with fine, dense, short, whitish pubes- 

 cence, punctate-striate with large oblong punctures, the interstices 

 finely punctured and with irregular alternate tufts of white and black 

 hairs, chiefly along the suture and submargin and at the tip ; scutel 

 generally with dense white or yellowish hair, and generally on each 

 side of it two conspicuous tufts of black hair, the inner one the larger 

 of the two. Legs dark rufous with whitish pubescence. Wings black- 

 ish. Length to tip of rostrum, .30-35 inch. Pronounced by Dr. 

 J. L. LeConte, in 1861, to be 'unknown to him.' 



" This species differs from A nthonomus in the third joint of the anten- 

 n£e being three-fifths as long as joint two, whereas in A. quadrigibhus 



