NUT WEEVIL. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
The snout in this genus is horny and prominent, with two 
subclavated antennas growing from its sides. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Curculio Nucum. C. corpore griseo longitudine rostri. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 167 b- 
Of a gray colour with a beak as long as the 
body. 
Curculio ovatus griseus rostro filiformi longi- 
tudine corporis. Uddm. Dis. 24. 
Nut Weevil. . . Degeer Ins. 5. p. 205. no. 2. pi. 6. f. 14, 15. 
Scha’ff'. Icon t. 50. f. 4. Shaw Gen. 
Zool. 6. p. 63. pi. 21. 
The white maggot which we so frequently find in 
our hazel nuts and filberts is the larva of this in- 
sect, and affords us a curious and familiar instance 
of the care which Providence takes to conduct even 
these diminutive creatures through the different 
stages of their lives, and to provide for them a pro- 
per means of subsistence, at a time when they 
would be incapable of procuring food for them- 
selves. 
