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CLOVER. 



[1899 



should be kept for cracks, and all cracks in the Cheese should be filled 

 at once with a mixture of flour, butter, and pepper. The Cheese should 

 be turned daily, and moved each week. 



Another contributor mentions flour and borax as a mixture to be 

 used after scraping out the infested crack. 



CLOVER. 



PEAR-SHAPED WEEVILS— Purple Clover Weevil, Apio7i apricans, 

 Hei'hst. { = A. fa fji, Kirby ; A. fiavifevwratum, Kirby) ; Apion 

 assimile, Kirby (? var. of above). Clover-head Weevil, Apion 

 trifolii, Linn. 



6, 7, Apion apricans ; 2-5, maggot and pupa; 8, 9, A. assimile — all natural size 

 and magnified ; 1, maggot feeding. 



Clover crops, and most especially those of Ked or Purple Clover 

 [Trifolmm pratense), suffer much from time to time from the depreda- 

 tions of a few species of Apion, popularly known as " Pear-shaped 

 Weevils." These beetles are of very small size, from rather less to 

 rather more than a line in length, somewhat oval in shape, and 

 furnished with a long and slender proboscis, more or less curved as 

 the case may be, giving to the beetles (when examined by a magnifier 

 sufficiently powerful to show the form) a likeness in shape to a 

 miniature Pear, together with its stalk — whence the popular name of 

 Pear-shaped Weevils. 



There are many species of this genus in Britain ; as many as about 

 seventy-five are recorded as present, which for convenience of refer- 

 ence are divided into groups ; and of these Group 6, of which 

 the upper surface is black, the legs wholly or in part red, and the 



