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b. A brown caterpillar, striped with white. 
The Stalk Borer (Gortyna nitela, Guenee.) 
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Order Lepidoptera. Family Noctuimi. 
[Plate VI, Fig. 4.1 
Concerning the work in the strawberry field of this well-known 
and wide-spread insect, I can add nothing to the mere mention, 
made by Prof. Riley in his Third Report as State Entomologist oi 
Missouri,—that it sometimes bores into ripe strawberries. It is vers 
unlikely that it could do any noticeable damage m this way, unless i 
its breeding had been encouraged by permitting the unrestraint! 
growth of thick-stemmed weeds in or near the strawberry field. J 
The Strawberry Weevil (Anthonomus muscuius, Say.) 
Order Coleoptera. Family Curculionide. 
Under the above caption, Prof. A J. Cook, of the State Agriculturs 
College of Michigan, announces in the Report of the Michigan Hoit 
cultural Society for 1888 the appearance m that State of a new straw 
berry pest,” which was said by a fruit grower to be ruining hi 
entire strawberry crop in July, by puncturing the rui f nthon^ 
muscuius and a number of related species occur also in Illinois an 
we are therefore liable to the same injuries which have attracte 
attention in Michigan. In the absence of any further informatic 
concerning this matter, I quote from the article of Prof. Cool,; 
“This strawberry weevil, of which I can find no mention anywbe. 
as a strawberry pest, proves to be Anthonomus muscuius , and w 
described by Thomas Say many years ago.. His description is 
follows- Dull rufous; scutel and elytral spotted bands whitisl 
Inhabits United States. Body more or less dull rufous, or piceoui 
punctured. Head piceous; rostrum with elevated lines; antem 
rufous; club dusky; thorax piceous, very much crowded with pun 
tures; small recurved, distant whitish hairs; scutel oval whit 
elytra with oval impressed strife of large punctures; rufous with t 
edge piceous; two or three undulated macular whitish bands ot she 
hairs'; beneath piceous; feet rufous. _ Length, including rostra! 
1 of an inch. Variety an obscure piceous, almost black, ban 
obvious. This varies considerably in its depth of coloring. 
This description, like all of Say’s, leaves little to he desired, 
"those sent me all are black but one, which !S very reddish, a, 
without the maculate lines. Mine are also a little longer, | 
mm., or nearly one-eighth of an inch long. 
Of the natural history of this insect I as yet know nothing. j 
