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worth considering. These facts give a valuable suggestion in the mat- 
ter of preventives. 
REMEDIES. 
Remedial measures are difficult and in general impractical, because 
the larvae and adults feed on all sorts of vegetation and are very widely 
distributed. The adults, also, are too active and quick of flight to be 
successfully reached by caustic washes; and spraying to destroy the 
early stages is ordinarily out of the question, because it would necessi- 
tate extending the treatment to all surrounding vegetation, and as the 
adults are strong flyers, even this would give no absolute security. 
We must therefore turn to preventive measures for practical results. 
The limiting of the amount of foreign vegetation about and in 
orchards and nurseries is an excellent precaution, and little damage 
may be anticipated where the ground between the trees is kept clean 
and constantly cultivated. The larva? and pupa? under these conditions 
will be starved out. The orchard in which the writer first studied this 
insect, and which was so thoroughly infested as to be seriously injured, 
was one which had been neglected for a number of years and was full 
of weeds and succulent undergrowth, furnishing conditions under 
which an unusual multiplication of the Ceresa bad taken place over a 
number of years. Surrounding and better-kept orchards showed little, 
if any, damage. 
Vigorous pruning in the fall or winter should be given trees which 
have been cut up to any extent, and this with clean culture should 
reduce the insect to small numbers. It is possible that something 
could be done by planting trap plants between the rows of trees, such 
as beans or other similar summer crops, which could be sprayed with 
the stronger mixtures of the kerosene and soap emulsion when the 
larva? became numerous or about the 1st of July, but the more practical 
method is the cultural one already described. 
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE STRAWBERRY WEEVIL, ITS HAB- 
ITS, AND REMEDIES. 
By F. H. Chittenden. 
The strawberry weevil (Anthonomus signatus Say) appeared in inju- 
rious numbers in the spring of 1893 and again in 1894 in many of the 
same places that were infested in 1892, as reported in a previous arti- 
cle by the writer in Insect Life (vol. v, pp. 168-170), and in a few 
new localities. 
INFESTED LOCALITIES OF 1893-'94. 
In Maryland the strawberry weevil was reported by Mr. Elon Beh- 
rend at Seat Pleasant, Prince George County, where it was injurious dur- 
ing the past two seasons. No injury had been noticed on Mr. Behrend's 
farm in previous years, but great damage had been done on neighboring 
