EARLY REFERENCES TO WEEVILS. 



THERAPONTIGONTJS. "Where now shall I find curculio, the parasite?" 

 CAITADOX. "In some wheat with greatest ease I'll make you find five 

 hundred curculios." 



Plait tux. "Curculio, or the Forgery." About 19G B. C. 



"The wheat which is not turned is eaten with wiuels." 



Guevara, Letters, 1577. 



"About this time it chanced a pretty secret to be discouered to preserw 

 their come from the fly or weauell, which did in a manner as much hurt 

 as the rats." 



Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II, 1G1. 



