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influence. It is in osier cultivation that it proves most dangerous 
and it should be destroyed when noticed by hand-picking or 
spraying. 
Pissodes notatus, Fabr., ravaging Austrian Pines. 
Damage to Austrian Pines by the Banded Pine Weevil ( Pissodes 
notatus , Fabr.) has been reported by Mr. H. Hyne and others during 
the past year. 
According to the reports of Continental foresters, Pissodes notatus 
almost exclusively follows the Pine Weevil ( Hylobius abietis, Fabr.). 
It is usually found on trees rendered unhealthy by the Hylobius and 
Fig. 12. 
Fig. 13. 
Larva (c) and pupa ( b ) of 
Pissodes notatus. 
The Banded Pine Weevi 
( Pissodes notatus'). 
finishes the damage begun by that beetle. Pissodes notatus occurs in 
all manner of places, in wood split for fuel, in young living stems, in 
pine cones and in the bark at the base of old trees. The chief 
damage it does is where it attacks young unhealthy trees. Planted 
pines suffer more than those self-sown, (1) because the planting 
often throws them back, (2) on account of the crowding in the nurseries 
which makes the young trees sickly. The Pissodes chiefly feeds then 
on trees attacked by the Hylobius and those grown on unkindly soil and 
thus more or less unhealthy. If the supply of unhealthy trees fails 
then these beetles will attack sound ones. 
The beetle (Fig. 13) is about one- third of an inch long and of a 
reddish-brown colour, irregularly covered with bright hairs ; the pro- 
thorax has eight yellowish spots ; the elytra with two broad pale bands 
running transversely across them. The beetles appear in April and 
