14 THE PLUM CURCULIO. 
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tft braun imb nreiSfdjecfia,, auf bem Hiicfen tft eine fefyr feine erfyofyete £inte r an jeber 
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naif) fnnten ju, bie ffeineren ftet)en etu>a3 bitter an ber ITiittelltnie. Da§ SdjilMein liegt 
tief. Die Decffdnfbe ftnb braun unb greiSfdjetfig, unb Jjabeit erfyorjete ftets abgebrodjene 
£inien,einige erfyofyen fid) nteljr, anbre roeniger, eine auf ber ITtitte neben ber ZZatt) erfyorjet 
fid) meit ftarfer, al§> bie iibrigen, unb toirb ein grower fchruarjer, Idngfictjer, fdjarf, !ie(= 
formig ert)6r)eter fjocfer; merjr nacf) ber Sptrje gu and) neben ber Hail) ftcfyt toiebcr eine 
ftar! erf)of)ete abgebrodjene £inie, bie jroerjte am Hang, abcr nidjt ber auf bem Hiicfen 
gteid). Die ^itfte ftnb and) braun unb greigfchecf tg, bie fyiiften gme^mat gebornt. 
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In 1802 the insect was redescribed by Fabricius in Systema Eleu- 
theratorum under the name Rhynclisenus argula; in his catalogue of 
the Insects of Pennsylvania, published in 1806, Rev. F. V. Mel- 
sheimer used for the plum curculio the name Curculio persicse; and in 
1819 Peck in the Massachusetts Agricultural Repository and 
Journal named the species Rhynchsenus cerasi. Dejean lists the cur- 
culio in his Catalogue des Coleopteres, published in 1833, as Cono- 
trachelus variegatus, and in Sturm's Catalogue (1843) it is given as 
ConotracJielus gibbosus Melsheimer. 
The generic position of the insect has been changed from time to 
time according to the ideas of different writers. Our species appears 
first to have been referred to Cono tracheitis in 1837 by Schoenherr 
in his Genera et Species Curculionidum under Fabricius's name 
argula. This genus, accredited by some writers to Latreille, was 
fully characterized by Schoenherr, who is cited by Le Conte and Horn 
and by other systematists as author of the genus. In Say's Ento- 
mology of North America, published in 1831, the name Crypto- 
rhyncus argula is used. 
The present synonymy of the species is therefore as follows: 
1797. Curculio nenuphar Herbst, Kafer, Natursystem aller Insekten, VII, p. 29, Tafeln, 
99, f. 8, H. 
1801. Rhynchxnus argula Fabricius, Systema Eleutheratorum, II, p. 467. 
1806. Curculio persicx Melsheimer, Catalogue of the Insects of Pennsylvania (No. 
589), p. 28. 
1819. Rhynchxnus cerasi Peck, Mass. Agric. Repos. and Journ., V, p. 312. 
1831. Chryptorhynchus argula Say (Descr. N. Am. Curculionides), Ent. North America, 
I, p. 285 (1859). 
1833. Conotrachelus variegatus Dejean, Cat. des Coleopteres, 2d ed., p. 297; 3d ed., p. 
321; lists as variegatus. 
1843. Conotrachelus gibbosus Melsheimer, Sturm's Catalogue, p. 222. 
COMMON NAMES. 
The plum curculio has been referred to in literature under many 
common names, as the fruit curculio, curculio, cherry weevil, peach 
weevil, peach curculio, peach worm, plum curculio, nenuphar, little 
Turk, Turk, kerkelo, little joker, etc. Simply " curculio" or " fruit 
curculio" was employed in many of the earlier articles, though "plum 
weevil" is also frequently to be noted, The word curculio is of 
