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excuse for wing-covers. Mr. Pinheadus dresses in 

 a black suit with a short brownish-colored vest. 

 lie measures a})out one-fourth of an inch in length 

 and much less in intellect. 



WEEVILS 



As a rule these beetles are very small, but with 

 few exceptions have exceedingly long noses (Fig. 



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228). They also have a habit of playing possum 

 like some of the beetles already described. There 

 is a pea weevil (Fig. 229) which lays its eggs on 

 the pea blossoms and the grub (Fig. 230) eats our 

 green peas. It stays in the seeds of the pea all 

 winter and comes out the next spring as a weevil 

 (Fig. 231) unless the summer is hot and dry, in 

 which case it may come out in the autumn. This 

 beetle is a short-nosed one and is about one-fifth 



