302 Insect Pests. 



the Xiit Weevils are killed at the same time. This I tried at home 

 with complete success. 



Natueal Exemies. 

 Whitehead (1) refers to the good done by Tits, and describes the 

 Great and -Blue Tits hunting for the beetles. Xo definite obser- 

 vations have been made, and this statement must be taken with 

 caution. 



References. 



(1) Whitehead, Sir C. ' Insects Injurious to Fruit Crops, p. 25 (1886). 



(2) Taschenherg, E. L. ' Insekten-kunde. Die Kafer und Hautfliigler,' p. 147 



(1879). 



(3) KaUenbacJi, J. H. ' Die Pflanzenfeinde aus der Klasse-Insekten,' p. 633 



and p. 647 (1874). 



(4) Ormerod, E. A. ' Handbook of Insects Injurious to Orchard and Bush 



Fruits,' p. 116 (1898). 



THE NUT LEAF WEEVIL. 



{Strop]iosoiiiii>i coryll. Fabr.) 



This insect is referred to by Ormerod (I), but I am not aware 

 that it does any harm to nuts in this country. No growers I have 

 consulted know anything of it, nor have I seen it on 



*any cultivated nuts. Miss Ormerod's notes appear 

 to have been mainly culled from Taschenherg (2), 

 Kaltenbach (3) and Stephens (4). 

 It is quite a widely clistributed insect in this country, 

 according to Canon Fowler (5). It is also referred to 

 in Schlich's ' Manual of Forestry' by Fisher (6). 



FIG. 204.-NDT 1^1,,, e . ■. \. -^ . . . ., 



LEAF WEEVIL Ivaltenbacti refers to it as an injurious weevil, 



(Strophosomus appearing in the springier the most part, in great num- 



bers, and gnaws the leaves of hazels," etc. (p. 590) (3). 



Taschenherg (p. 103) says : "The beetle appears in many years in 



great numbers, not only on hazels, as might be inferred from its 



scientific name, but also on birch, oak, beech, Scotch fir and pine, 



where from May till June they feed on the buds and leaves and the 



bark of the young shoots, and in some localities have destroyed young 



trees of the above mentioned kinds." 



Ormerod received them in great numbers from Great Brington, 

 Northampton, w^here they with other beetles were doing great damage 

 in 1889 to conifers. 



The beetle is ciuite small, barely 1- inch in length, black in colour, 

 with grey and brown scales, dull red legs and antennas; the elytra 



