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port will perhaps be “ better late than never.” A description of 
the very ingenious machines for jarring trees to rid them of the 
Plum Curculio will be in- Fig. 93. 
teresting to fruit growers ; 
while two Ichneumon par- 
asites of this insect are de- 
scribed and figured. The 
Apple Curculio (Anthono- 
mus 4-gibbus) which is do- 
ing considerable damage in 
Southern Illinois and some Strawberry Crown-borer. 
parts of Missouri is described fully and well figured, as well as the 
Fig. 94. Plum Gouger (A. prunicida). 
Another weevil injures the 
strawberry plant. It is the An- 
$e akis fragarie of Riley (Fig. 93, 
a, larva; b and c, adult beetle). 
The egg is probably laid in the 
downwards into the pith and 
Amphipyra of the Grape. root, when it attains its full size, 
and in the autumn the plants break off. The Pea and Bean wee- 
vils are noticed at length. Fig. 95. 
Among the insects in- 
juring the grape are no- 
ticed several moths : 
among them the Pyra- NN 
midal Larva of Amphipyra. 
Grapevine Worm (Amphipyra pyramidoides, 
= = 
known to feed on the vine. It 
will not probably prove very 
troublesome. The habits of 
the Spotted Pelidnota and 
Grapevine Flea Beetle are des- 
cribed and figured in an excel- 3) 
lent manner. We are also Grape Colaspis. 
ae made acquainted with the habits of a rather 
"ape Colaspis. formidable. beetle, clay yellow in color, the Co- 
laspis flavida (Fig. 96; 97, larva) of which the early stages are 
for the first time described. : 
