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them, Cryptus inquisitor (Say) (Fig. 227), is about two fifths of 

 an incli long, the other, Hemiteles thyridopteryx Eiley, is about 

 one-third of an inch long; the male is shown in Fig. 228, 

 the female in Fig. 229, both magnified. Five or six of this 



Fig. 227. 



Fig. 228. 



Fig. 229. 



Fig. 230. 



latter species will sometimes occupy the body of a single 

 caterpillar. After destroying their victim they spin for them- 

 selves tough, white, silken cocoons within the bag, a section 

 of which is shown in Fig. 230. 



Fig. 231. 



ATTAOKING THE FRUIT. 



No. 121. — The Cluince Curculio. 



Conotrachelus cratcegi AValsh. 



This is a broad-shouldered snout-beetle, larger than the 

 plum curculio, No. 94, and has a longer snout; in Fig. 231, a 

 shows a side view of the insect, b a back view. It is of an 

 ash-gray color, mottled with ochre-yel- 

 low and whitish, with a dusky almost 

 triangular spot at the base of the 

 thorax above, and seven narrow longi- 

 tudinal elevations on the wing-covers, 

 with two rows of dots between each. 

 It is an indigenous insect, having its 

 home in the wild haws, in which it is 

 frequently found, but it is also very 



injurious to the quince. It appears during the month of 

 June, and punctures the young fruit, making a cylindrical 



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