288 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I915. 



beetles also eat into the fruit from the outside. They feed both 

 in the fall before entering their winter quarters and after they 

 have come out of hibernation in the spring. 



The egg, larva, pupa, and adult are illustrated in figures 59 A, 

 60 D, E, F, respectively and the work of the larvae on blue- 

 berry leaves in figure 59 B. 



NATURAL ENEMIES. 



Under conditions favorable to the growth of this fungus^ 

 larva, pupa and adult are subject to the attack of SporotrichuKi 

 gJohuliferum Speg. Diseased specimens were not infrequently 

 found outdoors and in the laboratory these insects seemed very 

 susceptible to Sporotrichiim. This fungus was determined for 

 me by Dr. Roland Thaxter of Harvard University. 



MEANS OF CONTROL. 



If this insect were to occur in sufficient numbers in any 

 accessible localit\^ so as to make remedial measures seem eco- 

 nomically practicable, witliout doubt if could be controlled by 

 any of the ordinary arsenical sprays. 



ECONOMIC BIBLIOGR.\PHY. 



The writer has found only one reference to this species in ihe 

 literature of economic entomology. 



1904. Chittenden, Frank Hurlbut. U. S. Bureau of Forestry, 

 Bui. 46, p. 78, fig. 23. 



