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Larinidae had already made me suspect. The long-beaked 

 weevils have an internal probe, an abdominal rostrum, 

 which nothing in their external appearance betrays ; they 

 possess, among the hidden organs of the abdomen, the 

 counterpart of the grasshopper's sabre and the ichneu- 

 mon's dagger. 



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