The Life of the Weevil 
the corpulent infant will be drained to the 
skin. 
What a pity that we are not able at will 
to promote the multiplication of this zealous 
exterminator! Aias, our agricultural auxil- 
iaries have us in a disappointing vicious 
circle: if we wish to obtain the assistance of 
large numbers of the Chalcids that bore holes 
in peas, we must first have large numbers 
of Pea-weevils! 
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