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greatest scourges with which we are afflicted. 

 Others, such as the c.palmarum (n os 3 and 4) live 

 in the palm-trees, and its larva is much esteemed 

 in the West India islands. Its nest, woven of the 

 fibres of the tree, is placed here along with the 

 larvae. That of the attelabus (rhjnchites bacchus, 

 Herbot, n°3), lives in the curled leaves of the 

 vine, and if the weather is favourable to its in- 

 crease, whole vineyards are in a short time de- 

 prived of their verdure through the ravages of 

 these insects. Other larvae of the same genus 

 destroy the buds of flowers. The females lay 

 their eggs in the buds while they are yet tender, 

 and they always appear at the same time as the 

 vegetables upon which their posterity are to be 

 supported. They live also upon plants when in 

 their perfect state, and we frequently see the 

 leaves perforated by their proboscis. Many wee- 

 vils remain constantly on the ground: these, such 

 as the brachyceri, are almost always rough and 

 of an ashy colour ; others, like the brenti, have 

 the body, and particularly the head and the tho- 

 rax elongated. In some it is the snout only which 

 arrives at these extraordinary dimensions, as in 

 the hazel-nut-weevil (rhynchcenus , Fabr.), n os 191 

 and 192. 



Some of the rhyncophori placed here amongst 

 the weevils, and which form the division D, 



