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cently received the Shere interesting communication from Mr. 
John Screven, of Savannah, Ga., the specimens accompanying it 
being Lissorhoptrus siete Say —-a tolerably common species 
throughout the eastern part of the country, and found on various 
other water plants, so that it is probably not confined to rice as 
food. Wehave little doubt but that Mr. Screven is correct in his 
deduction that this snout-beetle is the parent of the “ maggot,” 
in which event the larva differs from the more typical larva of 
the pasenanids, in being quite elongate and not arched. Mr. 
writes as follow 
will observ tig latter the metho d of the ce ee feeding, and will 
find n o di iffic cing th in ccmeteding that when i erinepey numbers, as is sometimes the 
fact, vb may do much damage in the 
I have obs ae with aire maar sik sttention your allusion to this gn in the 
rte se from the AMERICAN NATURALIST, Feb., 1881. But it has su uddenly 
ccurred to me as possible that these “‘ water-weevils’’ are the perfect insect of the 
ot.’ larva riwciey I sent to you last summer. Allow me to suggest some rea- 
sons for a opinio 
- Both the weevi il and the maggot are water insects; both seek the same food, 
nam mely, the rice plant, differing eee in this, that the one feeds on the leaf and - 
the other on the 1o0ot of the plan 
hey differ in their periods ‘of existence, the weevil appearing in April an 
May, the maggot in the summer months ; but this may speciai spaaidet Scdigcar time 
I 
mane nie rae ita ars gre water is siete to the generation and existence 
ma t if from the cae weevil, will sarc within thirty 
phys ater a harvest water is pains ed to the fields. 
water weevil and the maggot are found in the same habitat, and both dis- 
i pate§ on the removal of the water in which they live. I may note here that the 
po is 
n the greatest numbers in the e early morning, feeding on the delicate leaves of 
nt 
the plane, and Gaake: — down the stem, the cooler recesses under water as the 
sun grows warmer. Many, however, feed all da ay. 
THE IMPREGNATED EGG OF PHYLLOXERA VASTATRIX.—It is get 
esting to note how, one by one, all the conclusions we have 
ormer years arrived at, are verified and their accuracy S cadiad 
by European observers having, presumably, no knowledge of 
what we have recorded. In 1875 (see Transactions St. Louis 
