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some choice Primrose roots, and to check the attack I dug-up the 
plants at once with the earth attached, and dropped them to the 
bottom of a small cask of water. Here they remained for upwards of 
a day and a night; the roots were thoroughly cleared, and the plants 
did not seem the worse for the immersion. The holes caused by their 
removal were filled in with gas lime, and the attack appears to have 
been checked. Mr. Scowcroft mentions soot as a decided protection 
from the Weevils as long as the disagreeable odour lasts. Mr. Mosley, 
Huddersfield, reports that he has found the plan of putting tarred 
boards and shaking the Beetles down on them at night greatly reduces 
their numbers. 
Simones. 
1. S. crinitus. 2. Ditto, magnified. 3. S. lineatus. 4. Ditto, magnified. 
3. Sitones lineatus. Pea Weevil: Cuddies. Mr. Fitch notices 
that liybernated specimens were very abundant near Maldon, flying 
about in the few fine days of early spring after the frosts (31st 
January, 13th, 22nd, and 26tli February, 1st March, &c.), but latei* 
in the year they were far less common than usual, and the Beans, 
Peas, and Clover were hardly attacked at all, and certainly not to 
any injurious extent. At Maxwelltown, Dumfries; Sedbury Park, 
and Little Faringdon, Gloucestershire, they are noted as not numerous, 
or as less plentiful than in former years. Mr. Long mentions the 
Pea Weevils have not been as numerous at Henlow, Biggleswade, as 
in some previous years, when he has had as much as sixteen acres 
spoiled by them. He notes the difficulty of dealing with the attack, 
as “in the dry state of the soil at the time—the only time when this 
pest does much harm pressure of the ground such as might 
diminish the sheltering spots of the Weevil would hurt the plants, 
and any dressing thrown on the leaves to prevent attack would not 
hold. Mr. Long adds he now diminishes his risk by the smaller 
breadth sown. At Kingsnortli, Kent, no perceptible amount of 
damage was done, but it is mentioned by Mr Hart that, at the time 
