Insecis, etc., Injurious to the StrmvJjerry. 



463 



tliev fire roimil, tlie (jiitninec 



attacked, the little weevils eating out roimil holes into the iViiit, 



usually Init little larger than themselves. 

 These holes are ^-ery ohai-aeteiistic 



being smaller than the spaee within. 



The beetles were found in these holes 



at dusk and early morning. This 



damage had jireviously been put down 



to slugs. 1 know nothing of the life- 

 history of tills insect. 



The lieetle varies from -| inch to a 



little over in length ; it is elongated 



oval in form, lilacl< in colour, some in- 

 clining to deep shiny brown ; fresh 



specimens show scanty grey pubescence; 



the snout is lirdad and has a central 



furrow, and the long slender antenna' 



are I'ed ; the wing cases have very 



coarsely punctured stria\ The legs arc 



reddish. The male is very like the 



female, but the front tifiia^ are cur\'ed 



at the apex. 

 Fowler records this beetle as follow^s : — 



London district, Kent and Surrey, com- 

 mon everywhere; it appears to lie nnire 

 (ir less general as far north as (he 

 Lancaster district and (Jhesliire, liut it 

 ceases entirely in the nnrtli and is mil 

 recorded from the Xoithumlierland and 

 Duiiiam district, nor has l)r. Sharp ever 

 cnme across a Scotch examjile, although 

 it must lie admitted that ilurrav records 

 it as '■ occasionally in Scotland. Ireland, 

 ]\Ialaliide, near Dublin ( Lower), Armagh," 

 etc. 



Its habits seem very similar to those 

 of other weevils. It shelters in moss, and 

 is said to do so in woods. 



I found in my garden that, by jmttiiig 

 down large pieces of damp bark with 

 moss on it between the rows, the tieetles 



Cdllected there and so were easily trapped. In future attacks this 



mi"ht be borne in mind and tried again. 



/.'. K.I,-. 



FIG. 30.'..— STilAH'BEKUV EATKX JlY 

 y.MALT, WEKVir,. 



