ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



243 



latent indefinitely, and not continue its destined 

 coni'se of growth nntil the requisite conditions 

 in'escnt tlieniselves — yet su<lt we beliexe to he 

 tacts, nevertheless. 



Wc rest tlie matter here, for it does not belong' 

 to our columns; and wc arc pcrfcctlj' •willing' 

 that the reader shall form his own conclusions 

 as to which of us founds his taitli on assumption, 

 and which on close experiment. 



THE APPLE CURCULIO. 



In order that our readers, and especially those 

 who live near St Joseph, Mich., may recognize 

 the Apple Curculio whenever they see it, we 

 [iresent herewith its portrait (Fig. 152), « giving 



[Fig. l.-.J.] 



J- 

 Colors — Dingy gray, incliuing to rust-red behimi. 



the natural size ; b a side view, and c a back 



view. Now compare this figure (6) with that of 



the Plum Curculio (Fig. 92, c) on page 130 of 



this volume, and it will be next to impossible to 



confound two such widelv diflering insects. 



THE NEW CURCULIO REMEDY. 



' j\.s wc always like to give a good reason for 

 tlie faith that is in us, it will be well, perhaps, to 

 report the residts of experimeuts recently made 

 to test the chip-trap Curculio remedy. On the 

 Kith of 'Slay, at Kirkwood, ^Eo., we carefully 

 cleared the ground around six stone-fruit trees 

 (two peach, two plum aud two cherry). We 

 cleared it within a radius of at least four feet 

 around each tree; and after depositing the 

 requisite traps, and carefully examiuing them 

 three times a day till the present time (May 

 20th), how many Curculios, good people of St. 

 Joseph, do you suppose we captured? Just 

 SEVEN, namely, two on the 20th, one on the 

 21st, one on the 22nd, one on the 25th, and two 

 on the 20th. Not very rapid catching, but all 

 wc expected at this season of the year! 



Erratum. 

 bottom, for ' 



-Page 211, column 1, line 20 from 

 as" read "and."' 



CF'Where there is one thorough entomologist 

 among our readers, there are doubtless a 

 hundred persons who know next to nothing of 

 Entomology, and who do not understand the 

 technicalities of the science. For this reason we 

 always endeavor to evade such technicalities, as 

 far as is consistent with clearness aud precision, 

 knowing full well that plain Anglo-Saxon is 

 best understood by all. 



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!EF°Our labors have lately been interrupted by 

 a rather tedious illness, and our correspondents 

 will please bear with us for any delay in attend- 

 ing to their questions. 



jy Our readers will greatly oblige us by ad- 

 dressing all letters of a botanical character to the 

 botanical editor, as we have nothing to do with 

 the botanical department. 



ON OUR TABLE. 



A Preliminary List of the Butterflies of 

 Iowa. By Saml. H. Scuililcr, Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The Techxologist. Industrial Publication Co., 

 .17G Broadway, N. Y. 



Zymotechnic News. St. Louis. 



MoNOGRAPHiA CnALCimxuM. Vols. I and II. By 

 F. Walker, British Museum. 



The Apiculturist. Mexico, Mo. V 



The Cosmopolitan. New York. 



Trout Culture. By Seth (ireen. D.M.Dewey, 

 Rochester, X. Y. 



Ohio Convention Reporter. Columbus, O. 



The IIUB. Boston, Mass. 



Advertisers' Gazette. (ioo.P. Rowell & Co., 

 N. Y. 



Procekdinos of the Illinois Press Associa- 

 tion, at its Fourth and Fifth .Vpnual Meetings. Ham- 

 sher & Mosser, Decatur. 



Premium List of the Fourth Annual Fair of 

 THE Nebraska State Agricultural Society. 



BowDOiN Scientific Review. Brunswick, Me. 



Masonic Trowel. Springlield, Ills. 



European Mail.— London, Eng. 



Land .vnd Water. London, England. 



Nature. London, England. 



Transactions of the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences. Vol. I., part 2. 



The Southern Agriculturist. Publisbed by 

 Thomas J. Key. Louisville, Ky. 



Outlines op Bee Culture. Second edition, with 

 additions and illustrations. By D. L. Adair. 



Annual Report op the Regent of the Illinois 

 Industrial University. 



FoRSVTii Banner. Forsyth. Mo. 



Phylloxera A'astatrix. Par le Dr. V. Signorct. 



Memorial of Herman Ten Eyck Fo.ster; of 

 Ben J. P. Johnson, and Rational antd Irrational 

 Treatment ok Animals. Three pamphlets from the 

 New York State Agiicultuml Society. 



