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Sohonherr’s Weevil aml tlie Orchard Moth.—Asa Fitoh, M. D., Salem, N. T. 
Salem , JY. Y., June 30, 1853. 
Hon. B. P. Johnson: My Dear Sir—The Michigan insects 
reached me in safety. They pertain to the weevil family (Cur- 
culionidje), and are one of the largest of that kind of insects 
which we have in this country. They are the Pachyrhynchus 
Schonherri, so named by the late Rev. Mr. Kirby, in honor of the 
Swedish entomologist Schonherr, who has devoted a great deal 
of attention to this family of beetles, so noted for the injuries 
which they inflict, and who has published several volumes upon 
them. Mr. Kirby’s description of this species may be found in 
the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, vol. iv> 
page 103. It also appears, from the short description given in 
Turton’s System of Nature, vol. 2, page 264, to be the species 
named Curculio JYoveboracensis , or the New-York weevil, by Fors¬ 
ter ; but not having Forster’s work at hand, I am unable to speak 
decidedly. It is rather a rare insect, I should judge, for I have 
never seen but three specimens of it heretofore. One of these I 
captured in this (Washington) county, twenty years ago. The 
others were sent to me, one from Long Island, and the other from 
Rhode Island. Mr. Kirby’s specimens were taken in Canada. 
This weevil, though variable in size, is commonly over half an 
inch in length, and is about two and a half lines broad. It is of 
a gray color, produced by short whitish hairs upon a black ground. 
Upon the thorax are three white stripes, more or less distinct, and 
upon each wing-cover are four white stripes which are interrupted 
by small black spots. These marks will suffice to distinguish 
this from other insects. We have a long-horned beetle, the grub 
of which lives in pine timber—the Rhagium lineatum —which is 
much more common, and strikingly resembles this weevil in size, 
color and form, but is readily distinguished from it, by having a 
projecting spine, or tooth, on each side of the thorax. 
Hitherto, so far as I am aware, nothing has been known respect¬ 
ing the habits of this weevil; and the facts mentioned by Mr. 
Wetmore, that it eats the young buds and tender twigs of the 
