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S. frontalis, although common, has not as yet attained as bad a rep- 

 utation as has some of its congeners, as for example S. blanda Mels.,* 

 which has gone on record as injurious to cotton, to potatoes, and par- 

 ticulary so to corn (see First Report on the Insects of New York, pp. 

 155, 156), and to beets {Inscct Life, iii, p. 149). S. tcmiaia (Say) 

 has been injurious to beans in Now JNJexico {Insect Life, iii, p. 122) 

 and feeds on many of the Cncurbitacem, and has been taken in associa- 

 tion with a number of grass insects (id., iv, 198). S. elongata (Fabr.) 

 Is at times destructive to cantaloupes in Maryland. 



Chauliognathus Pennsylvanicus (De Geer). 

 71ie Pennsylvania Soldier- Beetle. 

 Mr. C. R. Moore, of Bird's Nest, Va., has sent this beetle — one of 

 the Lampyridm — as appearing with the rose-bug in the latter part of 



May, and eating roses and blossoms of grapes. 

 He was informed that the insect was not recog- 

 nized as an injurious one, although it was 

 known to feed on the pollen of various blos- 

 soms. Writing again, he stated that he had 

 observed the operations of the beetle on his 

 Fig. 21.— The Pennsylvania g^rapes for the past three years, and wherever 



soldier-beetle,CHAULioGNATHUs ^ ^ ^ . 



Pennsylvanicus: a, the larva; he liad seen them operatmsf, the blossoms were 



6, its head enlarged; i, the ^ ^ 



beetle. all destroyed. 



Should this form of injury by the beetle be established, it might be 

 of more economic importance than the service rendered by it in its 

 •earlier stage of larva, when it is occasionally, at least, beneficial, in fer- 

 reting out and destroying the apple-worm of the codling-moth and the 

 larva of the plum curculio and, as later discovered {Insect Life, i, p. 

 516), feeding upon the pupoe of the destructive cotton-worm. 



Pissodes strobi Peck. 

 The Whitepine Weevil. 

 An attack on the Norway spruce, of what was in all probability this 

 insect, was reported, in August, 1892, b}^ W. C. Pierce, of Richford, N. Y. 



According to his statement, one hun- 

 dred and fifty Norway spruces, which 

 had been planted in the cemetery at 

 that place, commenced, last year, to die 

 at the top. On examination, small 

 borers were found working between 

 the bark and the wood from above 

 downward, and into the wood, begin- 

 ning in the top shoot, and destroying 

 the life of the tree as far as they progressed. 



Fig. 22. — The white p'ne weevil, Pis- 

 sodes strobi: larva, pupa, and imago — 

 enlarged. 



♦Recantly referred, together with ligata Lee, mitis Lee, ochracea Lee, and others, to 

 S. tceniata CS&y'). See Dr. Horn's Synopsis of the Halticini of Boreal America, in Tranaac- 

 tion3 of the American Entomological Society, xvi, 1889, page 273. 



