Life History.

This weevil is dark red, about the eighth of an inch in length, with six legs, and a very long beak or rostrum. It passes the winter in snug crannies and cracks in the floors and sides of granaries and warehouses, and comes out in the spring. Pairing takes place directly the weather is warm. The female gets into heaps of corn and deposits eggs in the grains, one egg in each grain. The larvæ, little white maggots, are hatched shortly, and eat the substance within the interior. The aperture made in the deposition of the egg is securely sealed up by some material supposed by Kirby, Curtis, and Taschenberg to be excrementitious. The pupa stage is assumed and the weevils come from the grains when their contents have been pretty well cleared out, towards the close of the summer. Taschenberg holds that there are two broods in the season, but this has not been confirmed in this country. The weevils themselves may sometimes be found in the grains feeding upon their contents, as well as their larvæ.