FIRST LARVAL STAGE OF THE PEA WEEVIL. 
[Insect Life, Vol. V, No. .1, page 203.] 
Cruchus pisit,., first larval stage ; a, egg on pod; 6, cross-section of opening ol 
mine; c, young larva and opening on inside of pod by which it has entered 
—enlarged; d, d, d, eggs— natural size; e, first larva— greatly enlarged; /, 
posteinbryouic leg; g, prothoracic spinous process. s — still more enlarged 
(original.) 
The fact that the Pea Weevil deposits its egg on the outside of 
the pod, fastening it thereto, has long been known, and we have 
found, as we surmised would he the case, that the newly-hatched 
larva of this species has the same characteristics as those we have 
described in the case of the Bean Weevil. 
An interesting fact connected with this larva is, that while 
ordinarily entering the pea direct from the amber-colored egg, as 
previously' recorded, it sometimes enters the pod i:i the neighbor- 
hood of the egg and then mines along the inside of the pod for some 
distance, being quite active and moving rapidly and with ease. This 
doubtless occurs wherever the egg hatches before the peas are suffi- 
ciently developed, the larva living as a miner until the pea is nearly 
full grown, and the entrance of the larva into a pea in such case 
would seem to be rather by' chance than by design. As in the case 
of the Beau Weevil, however, the larva molts and loses its legs and 
other post-embryonic characters as soon as it has entered the pea.— 
From Insect Life, Vol. 4, page S9i. 
