68 FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. 



the leaf in the form of an S or ogee curve, until she reaches the mid- 

 rib, over which she skips and cuts another S line, until she reaches 

 the upper and outer edge of the leaf at about the same distance from 

 the midrib as where she made the first incision. The rolled portion 

 is partially weathered, and the other portion remains quite fresh. I 



have searched many of the cases, but hitherto 

 have not found any eggs as in Attelabus, though 

 several perfect insects have been found shelter- 

 ing within the folds. 



The beetle (fig. 68) is about 2 or 3 mm. 

 long, of a black, shining, metallic colour, and 

 striated. The beak is more or less widened 

 Fig. 68. Deporaus betuhe a ^ ^ ie tip end. The head is not narrowed 

 Flat's!)' (PhotobyA - into a neck behind the eyes. The antennae 

 are 11-jointed, and the beetle is on the whole 

 a very pretty insect, though not so brilliant as the species of the 

 closely allied genus Bhyncophora ; but the metallic hue depends 

 very much on the angle of light. 



Genus Otiorrhynchus. 



This genus is perhaps more imjDortant to the gardener than the 

 forester, and the young student may get them in the first instance by 

 collecting in the garden. 



Otiorrhynchus picipes, Fabr. (Clay-coloured Weevil). 



This insect is most injurious in the perfect stage, and generally 

 feeds at night on the shoots of various plants viz., vines, raspberries, 

 and strawberries in the gardens, and on thorns and other plants in the 

 nursery and forest. I have only found it twice as a forest pest, once 

 doing much damage to several classes of young trees in the nurseries 

 of Messrs Caldwell & Sons, Knutsford, Cheshire, and also on young 

 thorn hedges in High Legh, Cheshire. The latter case was accidentally 

 discovered in the following manner. A farmer once applied to me for 

 wire-netting as a protection against rabbits, which were, he said, eat- 

 ing the shoots of a recently cut-off hedge : the " cutting off " had 

 been done the second year after planting. Knowing that the hedge 

 in question was in the middle of a ploughed field, and where I thought 

 no rabbits could be near, I at once refused the request pending a 



