The Life of the Weevil 



central vein. The only part left intact is the 

 extreme edge, from which the large severed 

 area hangs withering. 



This area, the greater part of the leaf, is 

 then folded in two along the principal vein, 

 with the green or upper surface inside; then, 

 starting from the tip, the folded sheet is 

 rolled into a cylinder. The orifice above is 

 closed with that part of the border which the 

 cut has left untouched; the orifice below is 

 closed with the edges of the leaf tucked 

 inwards. 



The pretty httle barrel hangs perpend- 

 icularly, swaying to the least breeze. It is 

 hooped by the median vein, which projects 

 at the upper end. Between the second and 

 third pages, as it were, of the double sheet, 

 near the middle of the spiral, is the egg, 

 resin-red and, this time, single. 



The few cylinders which I have been able 

 to -examine afford me no circumstantial 

 details touching the development of their 

 inmate. The most interesting fact which I 

 learn from them is that the grub, when it 

 has attained its full growth, does not go 

 underground as the others do. It remains 

 in its barrel, which the wind soon shakes 

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