The Nut-Weevil 
this will be so indefinitely, until our country 
schools yield the place of honour to cheerful, 
invigorating studies in the fields. 
Let us replace these inanities by the 
reality. The grub is certainly an outsider, 
an invader; and, if it has made its way in, 
this is because it has found a passage some- 
where. Let us look for this passage, which 
escaped us at the first examination, with the 
aid of a magnifying-glass. 
The search does not take long. The base 
of the nut displays a wide, rough, light- 
coloured depression, to which the cup was 
fastened. On the confines of this area, a 
little way outside it, is a darker speck. This 
is the entrance to the stronghold; this is the 
key to the riddle. 
The rest follows without further enquiry 
and is very clearly interpreted by the data 
provided by the Elephant Weevil. The 
Nut-weevil also bears a buccal drill, still in- 
ordinately long, but this time slightly curved. 
I can well imagine the insect, like its re- 
lative of the acorns, standing erect on the 
tripod formed by the tip of its wing-covers 
and the hinder tarsi; it assumes a posture 
worthy of portrayal by a fantastic pencil; it 
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