. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 2 BULLETm 922, U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. In 1882 Lintner took a specimen in Vermont. In 1884 punctatus reached Canada in numbers, flying across the lake from Buffalo to Ridgeway, 1889 it occurred in several places in Ohio * * * and Schwarz identified a beetle taken from the stomach of a crow killed in Michigan in 1892 as this species. Southward by 1890 it had spread over New Jersey and reached Philadelphia, where it was very common. The year 1894 gave records from Maryland, West Vhginia (Hopkins), and Indiana * * * Folsom re
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 2 BULLETm 922, U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. In 1882 Lintner took a specimen in Vermont. In 1884 punctatus reached Canada in numbers, flying across the lake from Buffalo to Ridgeway, 1889 it occurred in several places in Ohio * * * and Schwarz identified a beetle taken from the stomach of a crow killed in Michigan in 1892 as this species. Southward by 1890 it had spread over New Jersey and reached Philadelphia, where it was very common. The year 1894 gave records from Maryland, West Vhginia (Hopkins), and Indiana * * * Folsom records its first appearance at Urbana as 1903 * * * R. L. Webster reported it from Iowa in 1910. On the west coast Hanhem reported it from Vancouver in 1902 (Fletcher) and in 1906 E. S. Wilmot states that it was up the Fraser River as far as Harrisons, about 20 miles from the south line of Brit- ish Columbia. (Titus 7, p. 405-406).' It is now found in the additional States of Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hamp- shire, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wash- ington, and Wisconsin. DESCRIPTION. The descriptions are taken almost entirely from Titus (7, p. 4OS- 404), with additions by the authors in- closed in brackets. Adult [fig. 2]: Length 5 to 10 mm. Width 3 to Fig. 1.—Adults of the clover-leaf weevil feeding. Stout, black or brownish black. Clothed with blackish brown pale brown, yellow- brown or gray scales which are short broad and emarginate at the tips, and with short erect bristles, edge of elytra yellow brown or at least paler than remainder of scales. Head clothed with short metallic yellowish scales; front not as wide as breadth of eye, densely clothed with dark yellow hairs or scales which extend o\'er two-thirds of the beak; eyes elongate oval,'narrowed beneath, rather prominent; beak scarcely two-thirds the length of the pro thorax, and one-half thicker at tip
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