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Henshaw: List Coleopt. N. Am., 1885, p. 134, no. 1882 (ovatus Linn., lig- 



neus Lee, erroneous identification). 

 Hamilton: in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xvi, 1889, p. 153 (distribution); id., xxi, 



1894, p. 402 (introduction and distribution). 

 Townsend: in Psyche, v, 1889, p. 234 (in Michigan). 

 Schwarz: in Insect Life, iii, 1892, p. 37 (in notice of Otiorhynchidse) . 

 Harrington: in Can. Ent., xxiii, 1891, p. 22 (mention); in 25th Ann. Rept. 



Ent. Soc. Ont., 1894, p. 49 (common at Sydney, N. S.). 

 Riley-Howard: in Insect Life, v, 1892, pp. 46-47 (infesting houses; habits). 

 Webster: in Can. Ent., xxiv, 1892, p. 207 (feeding upon leaves of muskmelon); 



the same, in Insect Life, v, 1892, p. 99; in do. , vi, 1893, p. 186 [in grass). 



This curculionid or snout-beetle has been noticed in the Second, 

 Sixth, and Ninth Reports of this series as infesting dwelling-houses. 

 In the first instance a house in Lycoming, Oswego county, N. Y., which 

 had been closed for four years, on being opened in the month of May 

 was found to be harboring an immense number of the beetle, although 

 containing nothing upon which they could feed. They continued into 

 June, the last disappearing about the middle of the month. In the 

 second instance reported they invaded many dwellings in Potsdam, 

 N. Y., in 1889. In the third, they proved a great annoyance to the 

 occupants of a house at Moriches, on Long Island, in the month of 

 August. 



As their appearance at Potsdam was merely given incidental mention 

 in'the Sixth Report, some further particulars subsequently communi- 

 cated may be of interest. 



Infesting a House in Potsdam, N. Y. 

 Examples of the beetle were received for identification the latter part 

 of July, 1887, from a lady, with the statement that they had appeared 

 in the house in quantities and seemed particu- 

 larly to infest woolen goods. The writer was 

 assured that they were harmless to woolens, as 

 both the larva and the beetle fed only on 

 vegetable matter. The following year, in 

 August, the lady wrote that the beetles had 

 appeared in great numbers outside the house, 

 usually coming from their hiding places at about 

 9 o'clock in the evening. Many were seen upon 

 the outer walls (a stone building). They ate 

 the leaves of the shrubbery, particularly of the Plo . 12 ._ T he ovate snout- 

 rose bushes, of which little was left but the ^JKJn. !}: 

 stems. They were also found so abundantly in lar "g ed - (Original.) 

 the gutters on the top of the house that they could be taken up by 

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