PLATE III. 



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WEEVIL WOP.K ON SQl'AP.IvS. 



I'iMiiio 1. Adults feeding, male head upward, female head 

 downward; lii*. 2, orange-eoloied masses of excrement, 

 work of young weevil; ilgure 3, interioi- of feeding ininctuie; 

 fig. 1, egg puncture in usual jjosilion; lig. .i, grub half- 

 grown at failing of squares; fig. (i; full-giown grub; fig 

 7, tiansformation from gi'ub to l)eetle occurs within scpiares; 

 fig. <S, emergence hole made by weevil escaping from square.- 

 AII natural size. (Original.) 



