THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XV.] 



SEPTEMBEE, 1882. 



[No. 232. 



A FEW NOTES ON THE LARVAL STATE OF THE PEA- 

 WEEVIL, "SITONES LINEATUS" Linn. 



By Thomas H. Hart 



SiTONES LINEATUS. 



From the time I began the study of Entomology the mystery 

 attaching to the early stages of the pea-weevil has always been a 

 source of attraction to me. Nor have there been wanting circum- 

 stances to keep it fresh in my mind. At one time my beans, at 

 another my peas, have been attacked by it to my cost, and I have 

 also attributed to a Sitones much of the damage done to my 

 clover in some seasons ; but all my efforts to discover the egg or 

 larva were futile. Plants by the dozen were drawn from the 

 infested crops and critically examined, as were innumerable grow- 

 ing plants, but neither leaf, stem, nor root disclosed anything. 

 The old story was repeated last spring. Sitones threatened the 

 complete destruction of six acres of grey peas. All the means 

 at our disposal were unavaihng to check its ravages, and but for 

 a timely shower to reinvigorate the plants the crop must have 

 been lost. Here, again, all my endeavours to detect the egg or 



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