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THE PLUM CUBCULIO. 
tain itself most successfully, and puts in its appearance in the spring 
in numbers with much regularity. Under favorable conditions for 
development, as in neglected orchards, they often become excessively 
abundant, but for any locality do not show as a rule any great varia- 
tion in numbers from season to season. Although the curculio in 
its egg, larval, and pupal stages lives well protected — as in the fruit 
and below the soil — yet it is subject to the attack of several species 
of parasites. 
PABASITIC INSECTS. 
(Anaphes) Anaphoidea conotracheli Girault. 
Only one parasite of the egg of the curculio is known, namely, 
(Anaphes) Anaphoidea conotracheli Girault, first reared by the senior 
author in 1902 at 
College Park, Md., 
and next from ma- 
terial collected in 
1905 at Fort Valley, 
Ga. (See fig. 25.) 
The description of 
this species by Gir- 
ault will be found 
in Entomological 
News. 1 These mi- 
nute insects, barely 
visible to the naked 
eye, are quite active, 
jumping readily 
when disturbed. 
This parasite ap- 
pears to be widely 
distributed, and has 
been reared from eggs of the plum curculio in the fruits indicated, 
from the following localities: 
Table LXXX. — Records of rearings of (Anaphes) Anaphoidea conotracheli, various 
localities. 
Fig. 25.— (Anaphes) Anaphoidea conotracheli, an egg parasite of the 
plum curculio. (Original.) 
Localities. 
Date. 
Fruit. 
July 3-18, 1905 
Plum. 
Washington, D. C 
May 9-3 1 , 1905 
Plum, apricot. 
College Park, Md 
July 22-29, 1905 
Riverdale, Md 
May 3-July 24, 1905 
Apple, plum. 
Peach, pear, plum. 
Arundel, Md 
May 16-June 15, 1905 
Arlington, Va... 
June 13-July 13, 1905 
June 15-10, 1905 
Apple, cherry. 
Apple. 
East Falls Church, Va 
Aug. 12, 1905 . . . 
Victoria, Tex 
June 15, 1905 . . 
Tryon, N. C 
May 20, 1905 
Do. 
Lexington, Ky 
June 18, 1905 
Do. 
Ardmore, Okla 
May 30, 1905 . 
Wild plum. 
Wild plum, Japan plum. 
Fort Valley, Ga 
May 9-June 2S, 1005 
Apr. 26-Mav 13, 1901 i 
Myrtle, Ga 
Wild plum. 
Apple. 
Wild plum. 
Charlottesville, Va 
May 18, 1905 
Barnesville, Ga 
May 17-20, 1910 
i Ent. News, vol. 10, p. 220 (1905). 
