and there are minute differences in the structure of the hind segment, but 

 these are not to be depended on. The statement that all the larger and 

 more bulky Bf) Is wrong; both sexes are very variable 



At the base of the snout are inserted the antenna or horns, constructed 

 of eight join!- ng, and set at 



an angle to the rest ; the following six joints are small and bead-like, 

 and the last is large and flattened, and looks as if it had been cut off 

 abruptly, having a soft and .-pon-jy i.-rnii: al surface. 



The thorn,) . i i he anterior part of the 



true thorax, which can be seen on the under side to extend as Ear M the 

 hind legs, is apparently ?nade up of one piece without join except for the 

 insertion of the fore legs, another fra* the weevils. 



The legs an pair being attached to 



the body very far back ; each consists of a thigh, a shank, and a four- 

 jointed foot. 



The shank is not set with spines except at the apex, where there is 

 one directed inwardly. 



The structure of the weevil is not adapted for burrowing into hard 

 vegetable tissues, and it does not do so, though it may creep into 

 crevios, or dig its way into loose, rotten material and soft structures 



found. In boring beetles the body is na I . so as to fit the 



burrow, and the snout, if present, is short and strong, while the shanks, 

 as a rule, are strengthened with teeth or spines set along their outer 

 edge, sometimes for exea;= the friction of burrow- 



ing, and to throw out of tin - burrow the debris that is bitten away. 

 The Palm Weevil, with its unarmed shanks and its very small mouth, 

 would have gn < h >l »% < m ft :!. to accommodate 



it in the trunk of a tree, an 1 w im -p ei i s are ft mid inside a tree, 

 they have got there either through a wound, by entering the hole of 

 another insect, or the soft parts of the split bud, or have been bred in 

 the tree and not yet quitted it. In the latter case the immature hurtles 

 will be found near the surface with a thin layer of rind between them 

 and the outer air, through which they can easily break. One observer 

 speaks of find e and three large grubs wrapped in 



the fibre about three inches from the bark " (26). The beetle certainly 

 was not the parent of the grubs, and it must be distinctly borne in mind 

 that, except perhaps when the tiv< has external wounds, the beetle 

 does not bore but lays its eggs from the outside. 



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