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PEAS. 
Park Farm, Kingsnorth, Kent, together with information from obser¬ 
vations taken by himself of the habits and history of this Weevil, 
which have so long been sought for previously without success. 
Mr. Hart mentions that his attention having been directed to a 
Weevil grub having been found feeding on Clover roots, that he pro- 
Pea Weevil, maggot and chrysalis, all nat. size and magnified. 
ceeded to examine his Pea roots (not as before by loosening the soil 
and drawing the plant out of the ground, but by digging up the plant 
bodily, and carefully removing the earth), and soon found many 
Weevil grubs. This was on the 81st of May. Some of these grubs, 
or maggots, were lying along the main root, which bore marks of 
channels having been eaten along it, but, for the most part, the soft 
gall-like growths so often to be found on the fibres of Pea roots 
appeared to be their favourite food ; some of the maggots were found 
within the galls, but only where there was such an opening as to give 
evident means for the passage of the grub to the inside. The maggots 
when full grown were of the size and shape figured above, white, 
plump, and wrinkled, with a brownish horny head, and pair of strong 
projecting jaws, legless, but using the end of the tail as a kind of foot 
to help them in progression. When full fed the maggot formed an 
oval cell (without a lining) in the earth about two inches below the 
surface, in which it changed immediately to the chrysalis state. In 
this stage it is like the perfect Weevil, only with the limbs folded 
beneath it—at first it is white, but as it matures the eyes become 
black and the proboscis pitchy. The Weevil when fully developed is 
black, and grey above, with three light stripes from the head to the 
wing-cases, and the wing-cases are marked with narrow stripes running 
along them of alternately lighter and darker tint. The Weevils from 
the maggots brought in from the field reached the perfect state by the 
6th of July; those left in their natural position in the field did not 
develop until somewhat later. 
All that we need now to complete the life-history of this Weevil 
