. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 75 34. Ithycerus noveboracensis, Forst—This species is the largest representative of the family which occurs with us. It has been found! at times a serious pest in orchards, injuring apple, peach, pear, plum and cherry (see Insects Injurious to Fruits, Saunders, p. 196.) According to Riley it infests the oak, in the twigs of which the larva tunnels. With us it seems to in- habit the beech, upon vhich I have frequently taken it, in the month of June. At Chelsea, a few miles
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 75 34. Ithycerus noveboracensis, Forst—This species is the largest representative of the family which occurs with us. It has been found! at times a serious pest in orchards, injuring apple, peach, pear, plum and cherry (see Insects Injurious to Fruits, Saunders, p. 196.) According to Riley it infests the oak, in the twigs of which the larva tunnels. With us it seems to in- habit the beech, upon vhich I have frequently taken it, in the month of June. At Chelsea, a few miles from this city, it was very abundant one season, individuals being observed on every tree ex- amined in a grove of beech. It may be readily recognized among our snout-beetles by it greater size, being five-eighths of an inch long, and robust. Beak, broad and stout with a ridge down the centre ; thorax cylindrical, a little narrowed in front; elyti'a twice as wide as thorax, and declivous or pinched in at the apex to fit the corpulent body; colour greyish; the thorax with three indistinct pale stripes, and each elytron also with three whitish lines, interrupted with black spots, lower surface and legs whitish. Fig. 77. 35. Cryptorhynchus bisignatus, Say.—A pretty little brownish weevil, with an oblique white dash on each elytron, much resembling in shape the Plum Curculio but smaller and not tuberculated. Mr. ?Chittenden has found it upon both oak and beech trees and be- lieves that it lives under the bark of these trees. 36. Acoptus suturalis, Lee.—Mr. Chittenden has taken specimens of this beetle from beech wood. It has been recorded by me (Ann. Rept. xiv., p. 50) as boring in hickory, and the following description was there given of it. A small, black beetle (length one- eigbth of an inch), densely clothed beneath and more sparsely above with short yellowish hairs. The elytra are striated and in unrubbed specimens have a wide band of yellowish pubescence across the bas
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