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cup or cavity In the berry. Hereby the fruit is rendered unfit for the 
table or for preserving, until it has been looked over with the utmost 
care, and the berries closely examined one by one, each berry on which 
one of these worms is found being either thrown away or the worm 
removed from it. This picking over of the berries to cleanse them 
from these worms is a most irksome task, in which many hours of 
valuable time are every year spent in most of the households in our 
country. And notwithstanding this scrutiny, some of the worms no 
doubt remain, and are unconsciously eaten with the berries, it being 
impossible for the most piercing sight to detect them in every instance, 
especially those which are young and minute. 
When examined with a magnifying glass, these worms are found 
to be plump and cylindrical, slightly tapered at each end, and nearly 
one-fourth of an inch in length when fully grown. They are white, 
each segment having on the back a broad, pale, tawny yellow band 
occupying more than half its surface, and being also furnished with a 
few short, erect, whitish hairs. The mouth is darker tawny yellow. 
On the breast are three pairs of legs, but none on the body back of 
these, except at the tip, which is prolonged into a single proleg of a 
short conic form, and blunt at its end; arid on the apex of the last 
segment, above the base of the proleg, are two minute projecting 
points, appearing like two deep red dots. 
When the worm is fully grown, it drops to the ground, probably 
with the fall of the berry in most instances, and secreting itself under 
any dead leaves or other rubbish which it there finds, it forms a cell in 
the dirt, in which it changes to a hairy pupa of a pale dull yellowish 
color, and in this situation remains at rest through the winter, and 
till the middle of May or a little later, when it changes to its perfect 
form, and is then a small beetle about twice as long as thick, varying 
in its length from 0.12 to 0.15. 
This beetle is of an oval form, its opposite sides almost straight and parallel, quite 
convex above and flat on the under side.' It is throughout of a pale dull yellowish 
color, sometimes tinged with chestnut brown, or reddish, and is covered above and 
beneath with exceedingly fine short grayish hairs, which are appressed to the surface 
and arise from fine close punctures, on the wing covers these hairs being finer and 
less visible. The head is small, roundish, flattened upon the face, and held vertically, 
sunk into the thorax to the eyes, which are rather large, black, round, and very con¬ 
vex and protuberant. The upper lip is transverse, its edge with a slight, broad, 
shallow notch or concavity. The antenure are short, not reaching the base of the 
thorax when turned backward. They are thread-like, with their tips enlarged into 
a little knob the shape of an egg reversed. They are composed of eleven joints, 
which though distinct are compactly united. The basal joint is largest and gradually 
widens toward its apex. The two next joints are short aud thicker than those 
