CHAPTER X 
THE SLOE-WEEVIL 
N° less skilled than the Vine and Poplar- 
Weevils in the art of leaf-rolling, the 
Attelabus and the Apoderus have shown us 
that, in spite of a dissimilar equipment, the 
industry may remain the same; they have 
proved that similarity of aptitude is compa- 
tible with diversity of organization. Con- 
versely, different trades may be followed 
with the same tools; identity of form does 
not imply equivalence of instinct. 
Who tells us this? Who puts forward 
this subversive proposition? The Sloe- 
Weevil (Rhynchites auratus, Scop.) has the 
audacity to do so. 
Rivalling the exploiters of the vine and 
poplar in metallic lustre, she possesses, 
exactly as they do, a curved awl which one 
would say was meant for puncturing the stalk 
of a leaf and then fastening the edges of the 
rolled portion; her figure is short and squat, 
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