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The apple-blossoin weevil was named by Linnaeus 

 Curculio pomarum, and it has been distinguished by 

 later naturalists as the Anthonomus pomorum (fig. 5). 

 It is long and pear-shaped, of a reddish-brown colour, 

 punctured, and clothed with short, depressed, whitish 

 and ochreous hairs ; the rostrum is long, subcylindri- 

 cal, curved and sculptured ; towards the apex are 

 placed the antennae, which are slender and genicu- 

 lated ; the basal joint is very long, slender and cla- 

 vate — the second is oblong, the six following are 

 more or less globose, and the remaining four form an 

 oval-conical club ; the head is subglobose, with two 

 very prominent little black eyes ; the thorax is semi- 

 ovate, truncated before with three indistinct stripes of 

 a paler colour ; the scruted forms a white dot ; the 

 eljtra are elongate-ovate, with nine punctured striae 

 on each ; beyond the middle is a large piceous lunar 



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