156 PROTECTION OF WOODLANDS. 



the ground to receive them when falling. The best way of 

 destroying the beetles is by pouring boiling water over them when 

 collected. 



And finally, the beetles can also be induced to deposit their 

 ova in specially prepared breeding-faggots, thin coniferous sticks, 

 of 3 to 3J feet in length, which are buried near the surface of 

 the soil, several of them being set close to each other, and the 

 places marked with a peg so as to find them easily again. 

 The brood is annihilated by pealing off the bark from the sticks. 

 This method is usually of considerable success during the second 

 year, during which neither the beetle coming out of its winter 

 quarters, nor the newly-developed beetle, can find other suitable 

 sappy breeding-places on the fall of the previous year, with its 

 dried-up stumps. 



It should be distinctly borne in mind that endeavours must 

 always be made to destroy the beetles in the places where they are 

 developed, and that operations for exterminating the insect must 

 not be delayed, as was so often the case until comparatively 

 recently, until they attack the young seedling crops. 



76. The small Brown or White-spotted Weevil or Rostral Beetle, 

 Pissodes notatus. 



(Fide Plate I. figs. Sand 13.) 



This cambial beetle, from 0'24 to 0'32 inches in length, and of 

 a dark red brown colour, is irregularly covered with small scales 

 having a covering of greyish-white hairs, with a number of plainly 

 visible small white dots on the thorax ; on the elytra two rusty 

 red transverse bands are noticeable, which bear white and yellow 

 scales, and of which the upper is interrupted at the junction of 

 the wings. The rostrum or proboscis is rather long and thin. 



The beetle swarms about May, and then deposits its ova for 

 the most part under the whorls of 5 to 10-year-old Pines (Scots, 

 Weymouth, and Black or Austrian), and also in the bark of 

 dominated or suppressed poles. When the larvae, which are 

 yellowish-white in colour with a brown head, appear, they penetrate 

 downwards, eating sinuous galleries in the cambial layer, and at 

 the end of these hollow out a pupal chamber in the sap wood. Here 

 they plaster up the vacant space with the bore-dust, and then enter 



