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brown. The pupa is found within the kernel. The adult 
is smaller than a grain of wheat, with a snoutlike pro¬ 
longation of the head, and elbowed feelers attached to 
the snout. Two brownish species, which feign death 
when disturbed. In ears of corn their work is very sim¬ 
ilar to that of the Angoumois grain moth, previously 
described. 
/. The adult beetle is chestnut-brown, without spots on its' 
upper wings. A slightly larger weevil than the next, 
more common in the North.. 
. The Granary or Black Weevil. 
ff. The adult beetle is somewhat duller brown than the pre¬ 
ceding with four reddish spots, one on each outer cor¬ 
ner of the upper wing. A southern species. 
. . . The Rice or Spotted Weevil. 
ee. Small, more or less slender, somewhat flattened grubs, 
with distinct head and thoracic legs, crawling about in 
the debris of various grains or their products, or in veg¬ 
etable foodstuffs. The adults are flattened, longer than 
wide, the head not prolonged into a snout. They occur 
with the grubs, actively feeding. Two distinct species 
and their allies; all small. 
g. The grub uniform in color, whitish, about a quarter of 
an inch long, slender, its head narrower than the first 
body segment; pupa with the thorax not toothed laterally, 
but with most of the abdominal segments bearing a 
toothlike lobe, acute at each outer corner and toothed 
along its sides. The adult beetle is active, smooth, el¬ 
liptical, and reddish brown. The Confused Flour-beetle. 
gg. The grub whitish, with a rectangular yellowish area 
on each segment above, only the margin whitish as seen 
from above; the head broader than the first body seg¬ 
ment. The pupa bears along each side of the thorax and 
abdomen a series of stout lobelike teeth, which are cy¬ 
lindrical-rectangular and blunt. The adult beetle is 
smaller than in the preceding species, color dark choco¬ 
late-brown, the sides of the thorax toothed like a saw. . 
. The Saw-toothed Grain-beetle. 
dd. Large insects, living concealed in the bottoms of bins, cor¬ 
ners, and the like, feeding upon flour, meal, or bran. The 
adults are large black beetles; the larvae, large, cylindrical, 
wormlike creatures, resembling wireworms. 
h. The adult not quite black in color, shining, its third an¬ 
tennal joint not quite twice as long as the second; larva 
light yellowish, shining.... The Yellow Meal-worm beetle. 
