. A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. it. Kaiserlich. Biol. Anst. f. Land- und Forstwirtschaft, band 9, heft 1, 1913, pp. 157-163, figs. 21-27. Apion armipes Wagner. This species is similar to thea ove mentioned and attacks cot-ton in a similar manner in Nyas-saland. (Zacher., 1. c, p. 156,fig. 21.) Anthonomus vestitus Boheman. (Peruvian Cotton-Square ; Coleoptera.) Host: Cotton. Injury: Very injurious pest tosquares in Peru. Description and biology: Adult weevil resem les the Mexican cotton boll weevil(.4. grandi
. A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. it. Kaiserlich. Biol. Anst. f. Land- und Forstwirtschaft, band 9, heft 1, 1913, pp. 157-163, figs. 21-27. Apion armipes Wagner. This species is similar to thea ove mentioned and attacks cot-ton in a similar manner in Nyas-saland. (Zacher., 1. c, p. 156,fig. 21.) Anthonomus vestitus Boheman. (Peruvian Cotton-Square ; Coleoptera.) Host: Cotton. Injury: Very injurious pest tosquares in Peru. Description and biology: Adult weevil resem les the Mexican cotton boll weevil(.4. grandis): length mm.; o long-ovate, convex, blackish piceous, rather closelyclothed with elongate whitish scales, with indistinct oblique lighter band on eachelytron, the two forming a basal triangle. Pupa white, formed in fallen white, curved, legless; feeds in the interior of cotton squares which fall to theground soon after the larva commences to feed. Egg oval, white, laid in square (seetext fig. 47). Distribution: Peru. TOWNSEND, C. H. T. Pierce, W. , W. Fig. Peruviancotton square weevil, Anthonomus vestitus,male. (Pierce.) Journ. Econ. Ent. 1911, vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 241-248. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1912, vol. 42, No. 1889, pp. 155-156. U. S. Dept. Agric, 1915, Report 102, p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 3. Earias insulana Boisduval.(Egyptian Cotton Bollworm. Cymbidse; Lepidoptera.) Host: Cotton. Injury: Very injurious; the larvae feed in the bolls and squares. Adults have beencaptured in quarantine in a few bolls of cotton from the island of Cyprus shipped forpropagati ni and botanical purposes. A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS INSECTS. Description and biology: Adult moth green, front wings with two indistinct lines,hind wings whitish. Larva 1 rownish to greenish with yellow flecks 15 mm. lono-(see plate xvi, figs, a, b, c, e, g, h). Distribution: India, Siam, Burma, Australia, Africa, , Friedrich. Arbeit. Kaiserlich. Biolog. Anst. f. Land- u. F
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