REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I9IO 6l 



Larva. Full grown. Length 2 cm. This species is most easily 

 recognized by the black head and the mostly black, transversely 

 blue-banded dorsum, the ventral surface being orange-yellov^. 



Head shining black, the one lateral ocellus brovv^nish black. 

 Antennae short, fuscous yellowish, ventral fourth of head mostly 

 fuscous yellowish including the labrum. Mandibles brownish black 

 apically; labium, maxillary and labial palpi fuscous yellowish. 

 Body segments irregularly 6 annulate dorsally, the first thoracic 

 segment with the anterior two or three annulae orange-yellow, the 

 others with the first three and the fifth annulae shining black, the 

 fourth being light blue dorsally and subdorsally, black laterally and 

 the sixth light blue. Anal plate black and with a few short spines or 

 hairs. Spiracles oval, brownish black, the subspiracular area and 

 venter orange-yellow; true legs yellowish transparent, fuscous 

 apically; prolegs on abdominal segments i to 7 and 10. 



The parent insect has been described by Norton^ as follows : 



Length 0.40. Br. wings 0.80 inch. 



Female. Body long and not very stout, color chestnut-red; 

 antennae not longer than base of thorax, thick, serrate beneath, third 

 joint but little longer than fourth, the two basal joints piceous, the 

 three next black, remainder white ; face as in E.varianus, 

 not so much depressed below antennae ; clypeus not deeply notched ; 

 a black spot from below antennae to summit; labrum and tegulae 

 white; thorax black, scutel black, basal plates rufous, legs rufous, 

 trochanters and tarsi white; coxae, basal tip of the four anterior 

 femora and the apex of posterior tibiae blackish ; wings smoky, base 

 of stigma white; second recurrent nervure a Httle removed from 

 junction of first and second submarginal cells. 



Spotted pine weevil (Piss odes notatus Fabr.) . Seed- 

 ling pines shipped from Oudenbosch, Holland and submitted for 

 examination April 13, 1910 through the State Department of Agri- 

 culture, had the terminal shoots infested by a number of active, 

 though full-grown larvae of this species. Pupation occurred shortly 

 thereafter and several adults were reared in early May. The 

 operations of this European form were very similar to those of 

 the common American white pine weevil, Piss odes strobi 

 Peck, though in this instance at least, there was a marked difference 

 in the life history, since this imported insect appears to winter as 

 a larva. 



This European species, kindly identified by Dr A. D. Hopkins 

 of the United States Bureau of Entomology, is about one-third 

 larger than our native Piss odes strobi Peck and is most 

 easily distinguished therefrom by the indistinct ochreous red colora- 

 tion and the smaller, more inconspicuous, whitish spots on the distal 



1 1867 Norton, Edward. Ainer. Ent. Soc. Trans, i :230. 



