2 BULLETIN 922, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In 1882 Lintner took a specimen in Vermont. In 1884 punctata reached Canada 
in numbers, flying across the lake from Buffalo to Ridgeway, 1889 it occurred in 
several places in Ohio * * * and Schwarz identified a beetle taken from the stomach 
of a crow killed in Michigan in 1892 as this species. Southward by 1890 it had spread 
over New Jersey and reached Philadelphia, where it was very common. The year 
1894 gave records from Maryland, West Virginia (Hopkins\ and Indiana * * * 
Folsom records its first appearance at Urbana as 1903 * * *' R. L. Webster reported 
it from Iowa in 1910. On the west coast Hanhem reported it from Vancouver in 1902 
(Fletcher) and in 1906 E. S. 
Wilmot states that it was up 
the Fraser River as far as 
Harrisons, about 20 miles 
from the south line of Brit- 
ish Columbia. (Titus 7, p. 
405-406). l 
It is now found in 
the additional States 
of Delaware, Idaho, 
Kansas, Kentucky, 
Maine, Massachusetts, 
Mississippi, Missouri, 
Nebraska, New Hamp- 
shire, North Carolina, 
Oregon, Khode Island, 
Tennessee, Texas, 
Utah, Virginia, Wash- 
ington, and Wisconsin. 
DESCRIPTION. 
The descriptions are 
taken almost entirely 
from Titus (7, p. 402- 
404), with additions 
by the authors in- 
closed in brackets. 
Adult [fig. 2]: Length 5 
to 10 mm. Width 3 to 5.7 
mm. 
Stout, black or brownish black. Clothed with blackish brown pale brown, yellow- 
brown or gray scales which are short broad and emarginate at the tips, and with short 
erect bristles, edge of elytra yellow brown or at least paler than remainder of scales. 
Head clothed with short metallic yellowish scales; front not as wide as breadth of 
eye, densely clothed with dark yellow hairs or scales which extend over two-thirds 
of the beak; eyes elongate oval, narrowed beneath, rather prominent; beak scarcely 
two-thirds the length of the prothorax, and one-half thicker at tip than width of front, 
beneath on the sides and near the tip polished and densely punctate; an elongate 
impression on dorsal surface above the antennal groove; antennal groove black, 
Fig. 1.— Adults of the clover-leaf weevil feeding. 
Reference is made by number (italic) to "Literature Cited," p. 18. 
