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Insect Pests. 



but it is in Kent that it is most harmful to cultivated nuts, owing, of 

 course, to that county being such a large producer. 



It is common also in France, where it often does much harm to 

 the noisettes (1). Taschenberg (2) refers to it in Germany, and also 

 Kaltenbach (3). 



LiFE-HlSTOKY AND HaBITS. 



This weevd can readily lie told by its long curved snout ; in length 

 it is about J iuch ; the colour is tawny-brown to chocolate-brown, 



FIG. 203. — THE XUT IVEETIL {Balail 



[A. r. D. lUntoul. 

 nucus) AXri IIAMAGEI' NUTS. 



densely clothed with golden brown pubescence, which becomes 

 greyish as the beetle gets old ; the wing cases have rows of dots, 

 the thorax and proljoscis are chestnut to tawny-brown, and the 

 elbowed antenna^ are very similar in colour. Like other weevils, the 

 biting mouth is situated at the tip of the proboscis. 



The time of appearance, as far as personal observations go, is June, 

 the dates varying during the last fifteen years between the 10th of June 

 and the 25th of June. Ormerod says they " may be found as early as 

 May." Whitehead mentions "about the Iteginning of July " (1), and 

 again Ormerod says "it is stated that some of these beetles do not 

 develop till July or August." I have been unable to find any fresh 

 lieetles in Kent as late as July, but the weevils live on well into 

 that month. They can li^'e for six or eight weeks in confinement, 

 but such appears to lie unusual. 



