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showing a back view, and (fig, 37), a side view, the 

 small outlines at the sides showing the natural size, is 

 easily distinguished from all other species of the genus 

 with which we are troubled, by its larger size, and by 

 having on the tip of the abdomen, projecting from the 

 Aving-covers, two dark oval spots, which cause the 

 remaining white portion to look something like the letter 

 T. It is about 0. 18 0.20 inch long, and its general color 

 is rusty-black, with more or less white on the wing- 

 covers, and a distinct white on the hinder part of the 

 thorax, near the scutel. There is a notch on each lateral 

 edge of the thorax, and a 

 spine on the underside of 

 the hind thighs near the 

 apex. The four basal 

 joints of the antennae, and 

 the front and middle- 

 shanks, and feet, are more 

 or less tawny. It is sup- 

 posed to be an indigenous 

 North American insect, Fi - W.-W-- 

 and was first noticed a * Back View ; Pea with 8pot ' 

 many years ago around Philadelphia, from whence it has 

 spread over most of the States where the pea is cultivated. 

 This supposition is probably the correct one, though we 

 have no means at present of proving it to be so, and cer- 

 tain it is that, as the cultivated pea was introduced into 

 this country, our Pea-weevil must have originally fed on 

 some other indigenous plant of the Pulse family. 



THE FEMALE DEPOSITS HER EGGS ON THE OUTSIDE 

 OF THE POD. It is a very general remark that peas are 

 "stung by the bug," and the impression prevails almost 

 universally, not only among gardeners, but with many 

 entomologists, that the female weevil punctures and 

 deposits her eggs in the pea, in which the larva is to be 

 nourished. It is a little singular that so many writers 



