8 _ NATURAL HISTORY. 
thing it touches. When it is taken it endeavours to pinch the ‘kinty 
and is found upon thiftles. It is of a blackifh grey, and has the body» 
mouth, breaft, cafes of the wings and legs, marked with fpecks near — 
each other, which are all hollow. This infeét gets among the leaves, 
where it changes, and becomes a winged Weevel. 
3. Lhe Grey Weevel with an iron-grey mark on the cafes of the wings, ) 
and is found upon willows, being like the former. It is grey and — 
white, with black feelers, and jaws almoft as long as the breaft. . The’ 
end of the breaft is white, and there is a {pot of a tawny colour, on © 
the middle of each cafe of the wings. : 
4. The Weevel variegated with black and white, and with a plain 
earinated trunk of the length of the breaft.  Fri/ch calls it the Weevel 
with a fhort fnout. This infect is of the fhape of the former, and the — 
colour is black and white. 
5. The Weevel of a dufky brafs colour, with a fhort fnout and breatft. 
It is called'in the Tranfactions of Up/al, the accumulated Weevel, of 
a longith fhape and of a duiky brafs colour. This infe@ is very com> — 
mon in Sweden, the famale is larger by half than the male. 
6. The Weevel with a fhort fnout and breaft, and marked on the’ 
breaft with three pale ftreaks. It is common in the gardens and mea- 
dows, and is twice as large as a loufe. The body is grey, but the’ 
feelers are reddith. 
7. The Black Weevel with a trunk or fnout the length of the breaft. | 
It is of a middle fize.. ; 
8. The Afh-coloured Weevel'is of a longifh fhape, with blunt cafes 
of the wings. Lifter callsit the brown Beetle covered with hoary hair. 
It is found among grais, and is lefs than the former, and is oblong; 
black, and covered over with fine down. 
9. The Afh-coloured oblong Weevel with red feet, is like the former 
in fhape, fize, and colour, and might be taken for the fame, if the 
thighs, legs and feet, were not of a yellowifh red colour; befides it — 
has no down. Linneus takes it to be the female of the former. 
10. The Grey Weevel clouded with black, ‘is of a longifh thape, and 
the feet and feelers of a dufky colour. This is to be met with among 
forrel, where it makes its neft, and afterwards is metamorphofed into a: 
winged Weevel. It eats the leaves of forrel on the under fide. 
11. The green opaque Weevel with duik feet and feelers. This is of 
a middle fize. 
iz. The blueifh-green fhining Weevel with black feelers, is the fmall _ 
Weevel of Petiver, of a thining green colour. “Chis infec is met with 
on the leaves of the birch tree, and is of the middle fize. Vhe whole 
head, breaft, jaws, cafes of the wings, belly, and feet of a golden’ 
blue-green. 
13. The purple fhining Weevel, is met with in the woods, and is’ 
fmaller than the former, with a very long head. 
14. The Weevel marked with a tooth on the fore thighs, and a body 
clouded with grey. It is found in the blofloms of trees, and is lar-_ 
ger than a loufe ; the colour is brown inclining to grey. It has two 
ftreaks that run along the cafes of the wings, and the feelers and feet’ 
are of a brown colour. 
15. The Weevel with all the thighs marked with a tooth, and of an - 
eblong greenilh body, is found upon nettle-leaves, and is of a middle 
fizeo’ 
