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reported to Prof. Westwood (see paper previously quoted) that the 
maggots in the infested timber were destroyed by subjecting the wood 
in closed chambers to the action of steam for from eight to ten hours. 
This would check continuance of attack on the same spot very 
effectually, hut I am not aware of the beetle being at the present time 
one of the regular injurious insects of this country. 
PEAS. 
Pea, Bean, and Clover Weevils. Sitona lineata, Linn.; 
S. puncticollis (and other species). 
Sitona cbinita and S. lineata. 
1 and 2, S. crinita; 3 and 4, S. lineata (nat. size and mag.); 5, leaf notched 
by weevils. 
The following note, which was sent to me by Mr. Eeginald W. 
Christy, of Boyton Hall, Koxwell, near Chelmsford, is well worth 
notice, as showing one of the situations in which the Pea and Clover 
Weevils, which are often such utter pests to the young crops, in spring 
and early summer, and are to be found in legions on the “reapers” 
and in the waggons at harvest-time, spend tbeir winter season. 
In this instance they came forth obviously from the stubble under 
pressure of weather, but in common circumstances they would have 
come out like many other kinds of beetles with the spring warmth to 
feed on their own special crop-food, and lay the foundation of a new 
attack. 
“ I think you would like to know of a fact which came under my 
notice on Jan. 6th last respecting Sitona jmncticolHs (or lineatns). After 
the heavy snowstorm we had on the 5th and 6th I found immense 
numbers of these beetles on the surface of the snow in a torpid state. 
The field was a barley-stubble, and the tops of the stubble just 
