94 COLEOPTERA. 



nized by the head being lengthened into a long snout, 

 at the end of which the small mouth-parts are placed. 

 The antennae are long, slender, and elbowed. The 

 body is very hard, and usually of a rounded form. 



The larvae are usually footless, furnished with fleshy 

 tubercles instead of legs. They feed on seeds, fruits, 

 leaves and bark, and when full grown spin silken co- 

 coons, within which they transform. 



The family is a very large one, nearly 1 0,000 species 

 having been described. The species are mostly of 

 small size, and many of them are very noxious. 



The Plum- Weevil, or Curculio, Conotraclielus nenu- 

 phar Herbst. — Eggs deposited as follows : The fe- 

 male makes an incison, with her snout, through the 

 skin of the fruit. In this incision she lays a single 

 egg, which she pushes, with her snout, to the bottom 

 of the cavity that she has prepared. She then makes 

 a crescent-shaped incision in front of the one contain- 

 ing the egg. The last made incision underrnines the 

 egg, leaving it in a little flap. 



Object of the crescent-shaped incision ? 



The larva; live inside the fruit, causing it, except in 

 the case of cherry, to fall. When full grown, the lar- 

 vae usually leave the fruit and go into the ground to 

 transform. A few transform within the fruit. 



The pupa s*-ate lasts about three weeks. 



This species infe.sts nectarines, plums, apricots, cher- 

 ries, peaches, black-knot on plum trees, and some kinds 

 of apples, pears and quinces. 



Remedies. — Hogs. Hull's Curculio-catcher. Ran- 

 som Chip-trap Process. (1,488; 2,75; 3, I., 50; 3, 

 v., 25 ; 5, I., II ; 5, II., 130). 



