reflections, and are from 8 to 11 mm long. This species is often a serious pest of 
pine and spruce in Europe. So far, it has not been very injurious in this country. 
Four species of the genus Graphognathus, whitefringed beetles, have been 
introduced into the Southern States (/248). First observed in Florida in 1936, they 
now range north to Virginia and Missouri (524). The adults feed on the foliage of 
hundreds of species of plants, including such tree species as pecan, hackberry, 
black tupelo, yellow-poplar, blackjack oak, hawthorn, and sassafras, but their 
damage is of minor importance. Most of the injury caused by this group results 
from larval feeding on the roots of plants. There are records of damage to tree 
seedlings in nurseries and fields. 
The female adult (no males have been found) is dark gray and about 21 mm long. 
The body is densely covered with short pale hairs, with those on the elytra being 
somewhat longer. The forewings are fused together on the inner margins and the 
hindwings are rudimentary, thus the beetle cannot fly. Eggs are deposited in masses 
covered and held together by a sticky, gelatinous substance that hardens upon 
drying. They may be attached to plants or other objects at the ground line or in the 
soil, just below the surface. Winter is usually spent in the larval stage, and there is 
one generation per year (/368). 
The twobanded Japanese weevil, Callirhopalus bifasciatus (Roelofs), although 
first reported from Connecticut in 1920, was first collected in Philadelphia in 1914 
(166). It is now widely distributed in Eastern United States. Only females have 
been recorded here. They are stout weevils, 4.5 to 7 mm long, with the snout 
almost as wide as long. The elytra are fused, brownish gray, with two dark bands. 
The eggs are laid on freshly fallen leaves or leaf fragments that the female then 
folds and seals to make a pod. An average of three eggs is laid in each pod. They 
hatch in about 14 days; the larvae then burrow into the soil and begin to feed on the 
roots. Adults begin to appear in September. 
All developmental stages can overwinter, but usually it is the adult. The adults 
become active in April (//). The larvae and pupae have been described (8/4). 
Adults eat at the leaf margin of a great variety of trees and shrubs. Reported eaten 
are such diverse plants as flowering dogwood, hemlock, rhododendron, oak, aralia, 
maple, forsythia, viburnum, and poplar. 
The Asiatic oak weevil, Cyrtepistomus castaneus (Roelofs), an introduced 
species first recorded in North America at Montclair, N.J., in 1933, is now known 
to occur from New Jersey to Georgia and Missouri. Oaks and Asiatic chestnuts 
appear to be its preferred hosts but it also attacks hickory, beech, dogwood, 
hazelnut, and azalea (/209). Adults are black to reddish brown, irregularly clothed 
with minute green scales, and about 6 mm long. 
The Asiatic oak weevil is parthenogenetic and has a l-year life cycle. Appar- 
ently, eggs are laid in the soil from early July to mid-September. Larvae have been 
found around the roots of oak seedlings at depths of 15 cm in the soil. Winter is 
spent mostly in the larval stage. Adults appear in the spring and feed on the leaves 
of sapling oaks and chestnut. They chew in from the margins toward the midribs 
and devour everything but the larger veins. Later, they fly to larger trees to feed. 
During the fall, they sometimes invade houses in large numbers, presumably in 
search of hibernation quarters. 
Species of the genus Hylobius are another group of weevils with larvae that feed 
primarily on or near roots. These attack conifers predominantly. Often a complex of 
Hylobius spp., Pissodes spp., and Pachylobius picivorus (Germar) will attack the 
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