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Texas.” Scott and Fiske (8 , p. 34) took it commonly in jarring peach and plum 
trees at Fort Valley, Ga. An unpublished note in the Bureau of Entomology 
shows that it was collected by a correspondent at Mount Solon, Va., in 1899. 
Felt (3> p. 544) records it as occurring at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and in the Adiron¬ 
dack Mountains of the same State. It is recorded from the District of Columbia 
by Ulke ( 9 , p. 34 , 55 ), from southwestern Pennsylvania by Hamilton (4, p. 376 ), 
and from the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, by Dury (3). In 1910 Jenne 
(5) collected it in numbers from peach trees at Gainesville, Ga., and in 1922 
Snapp jarred numerous specimens from peach trees at Fort Valley, Ga. Data 
furnished by Thomas H. Jones, at the time entomologist of the Louisiana Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station, Baton Rouge, La., show that he reared adults of this 
species from larvae found at New Roads and Baker, La. The present writer has 
found the species abundant at French Creek, W. Va., and in other localities of 
that State. It would seem from the foregoing that the insect is distributed rather 
generally throughout much of the eastern and central portions of the United 
States. 
FOOD HABITS 
Very few references to the feeding habits of this species are published. Say 
(7, p. 18) says of it “Breeds in the fruit of hickory (Juglans).” Blatchley and 
Leng (1, p. 480) record taking the beetles from asters in Indiana and under moist 
bark and on various bushes in New Jersey. Felt (3, p. 544) states that beetles 
were taken on two successive days on a slippery elm tree that had been stripped of 
bark. This, he considered, indicated a certain attraction for this food plant. 
Jenne, in his unpublished notes, speaks as follows of seven beetles that were 
jarred from peach trees at Gainesville, Ga.: 
The beetles were kept in a jelly glass with fresh peach leaves and fruit. No feeding was done on either 
fruit or foliage, except that they punctured the fruit at the receptacle of the stem. When the fruit was 
cut open the beetles would feed freely on it, but they would not puncture the skin. 
In speaking of the larvae Jenne says, “ In no case were they able to enter peaches 
except through a previously made break in the skin.” From the 7 beetles referred 
to above Jenne reared 79 adults which “also refused to puncture the skin of 
either peaches or apples, but fed freely on these fruits when cut open.” 
In 1922 Snapp, while working with peach insects at Fort Valley, Ga., found 
that the beetles would oviposit in sound peaches. His unpublished notes state 
that 10 beetles were confined in a battery jar and supplied with peaches free 
from feeding or egg punctures. “The peaches were removed after they had 
been exposed to the beetles 48 hours and placed in wire cylinders. A number of 
eggs were deposited.” . The larvae from these eggs matured in the fruit and were 
permitted to enter the soil. Later a number of adults came through. With 
reference to these observations Snapp states, “The peach fruits exposed to the 
adults 48 hours, and in which eggs were deposited, were all sound peaches properly 
matured to that period in their development. Only peaches free from signs 
of any egg laying or feeding punctures were used for the purpose.” He adds 
further, “I am of the opinion that each season a small proportion of the wormy 
peaches in Georgia is due to anaglypticus. Heretofore all Georgia wormy peaches 
have been attributed to the work of nenuphar .” 
Theo. Pergande, of the Bureau of Entomology, entered the following unpub¬ 
lished note in the bureau files: “May 24, 1899. Received from Jas. T. Clark, 
Mount Solon, Va., one specimen of this beetle ( Conotrachelus anaglypticus ), 
which he found, with several others which escaped him, in black knot on his 
plum trees, in which they had evidently been breeding.” 
April 27, 1923, Thos. H. Jones furnished the writer with data which show that 
he had reared beetles of this species from cotton bolls collected in two localities 
