. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. HISTORY. 17. -An early illustration of the plum curculio, frequently between about 1830 and 1850. used excrescences. In his Entomology of North America, pubhshed in 1831, Thomas Say refers to the curcuHo as Cryptorhi/n'hus argula, and gives the opin- ion of his kinsman, Bartram, as to its destriictiveness. A fairly extended ac- count of the insect is given by Harris in his Insects Injur- ious to Vegetation, published in 1841, antl it was con- sidered at length by Dr. Asa Fitch in his address on the curculio and b
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. HISTORY. 17. -An early illustration of the plum curculio, frequently between about 1830 and 1850. used excrescences. In his Entomology of North America, pubhshed in 1831, Thomas Say refers to the curcuHo as Cryptorhi/n'hus argula, and gives the opin- ion of his kinsman, Bartram, as to its destriictiveness. A fairly extended ac- count of the insect is given by Harris in his Insects Injur- ious to Vegetation, published in 1841, antl it was con- sidered at length by Dr. Asa Fitch in his address on the curculio and black-knot of plum trees, delivered be- fore the New York State Agricultural Society in 1860 (p. 839). The most complete account of the insect up to this time, however, was that by Dr. Isaac P. Trimble in his Treatise on the Insect Enemies of Fruits and Fruit Trees, published in 1865. In this work 99 quarto pages are devoted to the curculio, accompanied by 8 colored plates. Many observations are presented as a result of Important contributions to a knowledge of the insect are given in the articles by Walsh in the Prac- tical Entomologist for 1867 (pp. 75-79), and in the First An- nual Report on the Noxious Insects of Ilhnois (pp. 85-96). In the First Missouri Report, published in 1869,Dr. gives an extended account of the cur- culio, summarizing the knowledge con- cerning it up to that time, and in the Third Missouri Report (1871, pp. 11-29) gives further information on its life history, with an ex- 17262°—Bull. 103—12 2 personal Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Entomology. Washington : G. P. O.
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