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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
winged BMidgeij and thTlar^^o^m^^other Siwut-beeUes^aii^as^does 
2 ° rab (“t ra ; a rouo r^ t :m 
ous allies All the specimens seen by me, whether fiom 
green grapes and of a pale color ; but Mr. Spaulding, of Cobden, has assured me, that 
the darker the grape is, the darker the larva becomes. 
7 • 7- Cent Tfirr 1 Black with minute, short, scale-like, appressed 
The Grape Curctuo. ^ Ending the be ak, punctured almost a, 
drical, curved inwards in a cir < adrant f or y 0 f the way from 
with rather Urge confluent punctures, its sides converging m • c»™ ^ J 
, lM „ tinned with brick-red. A transverse impressed line ^ ot the way iro 
hairs; their groove, ^ areP™ M and nh , an d the 8th and 9th groove, are 
interstices between the -d an , , and rounded in front than the others. Tho 
r:;:r:"he\Zir;::;u“T,,k: l TrT 
growth. »W* *— *» outur^nenus (erodes) carte, 
" —n o f that" " :s: " 
apparently, through some clericai or typographical error, been Ue Afler iMerting tho 
wise the word “SMill.EE” iu Say’s description is unmean. g Each side [of which lino is a laeue 
omitted phrase in brackets. Say’s description would read “*^1^.^.— tub ercle.” 
iwnnded of this insect, has kindly shown me that 
I species disagrees in severe, characters with Sehoenherr’s more fn„ and „ — ^h, 
carte of say, which was probably based upon specimens ^ prefer, referring our specie, to the 
his cabinet a species which he considers as the true carte 0,1Bay ,hepreie.sre e g P 
, • v• T willin^lv how to his authority; though tnere is iub j 
Mkorkyncku, and tbl8 S p e eies is most decidedly no, brown hut black, 
that twtqudUs is described y Q ‘ certainly agrees much better with the average size 
The size given by Say for insequa is ( • . h v But a s I have one specimen of 
of this species, than the sire which other entomologiste, scarcely ever gives the 
this species only 0.09 inch long, and ^ y, certain that he did not describe 
number of specimens used by him in descriMng, it.. —^ of Say’s, iike the 
from a single unusually small specnr ^ gQ brief and de f ec tive, that to deter- 
great majority of those that we have to work on m en ° ’ whether it really belongs to either of 
mine to which of the two species the Giape Ourcuuo nei „ > 
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