. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1902, . p. 18S.+ Travels Among the great Andes of the Equator, Appendix, p. .57. 68 THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 would first appear in that part of the State, therefore Mr. Burf(ess was instructed to search forit this fall aa opportunity offered, and a single female was found in the act of ovipositing on , in willow, growing along a sm.^11 stream just east of the City of Ashtabula. De-scription of the Matire The insect is one of the snout beetles or curculios, related to the plum curculio, but muchlarger, being from to mm., about one-thi
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1902, . p. 18S.+ Travels Among the great Andes of the Equator, Appendix, p. .57. 68 THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 would first appear in that part of the State, therefore Mr. Burf(ess was instructed to search forit this fall aa opportunity offered, and a single female was found in the act of ovipositing on , in willow, growing along a sm.^11 stream just east of the City of Ashtabula. De-scription of the Matire The insect is one of the snout beetles or curculios, related to the plum curculio, but muchlarger, being from to mm., about one-third to three-eighths of an inch, in length ; bodydull black with little spots or tufts of jet-black scales or hairs on the thorax and wing covers ;scattered over the forward half of the wing covers are minute white scales which almost coverthe posterior third, and form a somewhat V-shaped marking between this and the thorax. Thebody is coitsely pitted, and the femora, or fir^t joints of the legs are spined. Plate, Fig. 1. r1 k^ - -,...., ; i. The Imported Willow and Popar Curculio.—(Webster.) Figure 1, Criiptorhynchvs lapaOu, adult, enlarged. Original. Figure 2, larva ; figures 3 and 4, pupa. After Jack. Figure 5, egg enlarged, as placed by female ia bark of willow. Original. Figure 6, illustrating larvae burrowing in the solid wood. After Jack. Description of the , or Youno. When fully developed these are fleshy, footless, whitish borers, having somewhat theappearance of grubs, with small brown heads and darker brown jaws. Plate, Fig. 2. Distribution of the Species. The insect is common in Europe, ranging over Siberia and Japan, but whether it extendsfurther south into Central Asia is not known. In the United States it is known to oecur fromNew Jersey to Massachusetts, and westward through New York and in north-eastern Ohio,having without doubt pushed its way along the south shores of Lake Erie, from Buffalo, ,where it was first observed in the summer of 1896. 1901
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