ALCIDES SP. 
Reference :—Provisionally determined by Mr. C. O, Waterhouse, of the 
British Museum, as a species of Alcides not in the Museum. 
Classification: Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, Curculionide. 
Description. 
The /arva when full grown is a fat white grub usually 
more or less curled with twelve segments, the middle ones 
thicker than those at either end. Head small and bright 
yellow-brown in colour, Length 3? inch. See Pl. IV, fig. 6, a. 
The pupa is of the ordinary curculionid shape. 
The Jeetle is black in colour with black antennz and legs 
the latter clothed with yellowish-brown hairs. The rostrum 
(beak) is straight, thickish, about half as long as the insect, 
the grooves (scrobes) in it on either side starting about one- 
third down from the tip. Antenne medium sized, fairly thick ; 
the scape is thickened at the joint and the funiculus ends ina 
thick oval knob. Eyes large and elliptical in shape. Pro- 
thorax rather triangular drawn out in front and produced into 
a small point behind at its junction with the inner angles of 
the elytra. Elytra meeting well together and rounded at bases. 
. Prothorax and elytra studded with raised points. Body pubes- 
cent. Front legs longer than the others. PI. IV, fig. 6, 6, shows 
a dorsal and side view of this beetle. 
Life History. 
The beetle appears on the wing at about the beginning of 
August, but at present it is not known when or where it lays 
its eggs. Larva were found full fed in walnuts in the first 
week in July, and it is therefore probable either (1) that the 
weevil is to be found on the wing throughout the autumn, 
hibernating under bark or decaying leaves, stones, etc., on 
the ground and coming out to lay its egg on or near the young 
@ flowers of the walnut in March or April; or (2) it lays its 
eggs on the twigs near the young flower buds in the autumn of 
the year in which it issues as a beetle. No external holes are to ~ 
