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I put bandages of woollen cloth round the stems, and rubbed 

 over the bandages with grease and train oil. I never found 

 them pass these bandages. At night, I found plenty of these 

 insects on that part of the vine below the bandage, all making 

 their way up the stem ; but they never ventured beyond the 

 bandage. Night is the best time to look for them : but this 

 must be done very cautiously ; for they drop off if the vines are 

 ever so little shaken, or if a light is held near them. What few 

 I found above the bandages were only those which had escaped 

 my previous search : they are exactly the colour of the bark. I 

 put oil and grease on the ends of the wires also, to prevent their 

 approach that way. I cannot account for their presence in my 

 hot-houses, except on the supposition that they were brought in 

 with the leaves which I use in the pits. It is the same insect 

 which attacks raspberries in cold springs. 

 Cossey Hall, Norfolk, Nov. 8. 1856. 



Not having ever heard of any instance of the nut weevil so 

 entirely changing its habits as is here detailed, and there being 

 several other species of weevils which do mischief to the vine, I 

 am induced to enquire whether Mr. Wighton is certain as to 

 the specific identity of his insect with the nut weevil. The 

 Baron Walckenaer, in his curious Memoir upon the Vine Insects, 

 which has already been translated and published, both in the 

 Entomological Magazine and in Mr. Taylor's Philosophical Me- 

 moir, has described the economy of Rhynchites Bacchus and R. 

 betuleti, both of which are very destructive. The Otiorhynchus 

 ligustici Fah. (figured by Olivier in his Ent., p. 7. fig. 77.), also, 

 every year destroys great quantities of the vines in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Paris, and devours the young shoots of asparagus, 

 &c. It is found in sandy places, and in the hollows, and at the 

 bottom, of old walls. (See Diet. Classique des Scien. Nat., art. 

 Charanson.) It is curious that the Baron Walckenaer has omitted 

 all reference to the injuries produced by this insect. Will Mr, 

 Wighton oblige me by forwarding to Mr. Loudon, at his con- 

 venience, one of his weevils for my inspection ? — J. O. Westwood. 



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 and on Kinds of Interest previously extant in them ; supplementary 

 to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcedia of Plants," and of 

 the " Hortus Britannicus." 



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