B B ; Rev. Mr. KanBy's Continuation of the - 
- On the feventh of June, upon opening a floret, I difcovered a {malt 
patch of eggs; they were oblong (7), tranfparent, and of a pale buff 
colour. I afterwards found feveral of thefe little patches, containing 
from a fingle egg only, to more than twenty. On the feventcenth 
I found, for the firt time, a larva newly hatched : it adhered tothe 
lower end of one of the anthers (4), and was perfectly tranfparent 
and colourlefs ; from which circumítance I conjecture, that it had 
taken no food. . I afterwards dete&ed two more in a fimilar fitu- 
ation, one of which had become ftraw-coloured from the contrary 
 caufe. In another floret, upon the fame day, I found many with 
their heads immerfed in the woolly fummit of the germen: fome 
were in the interior valvule of the corolla ; others appeared to be 
bufy upon the plumofe ftigmata, upon which I did not obferve that 
any pollen had been difcharged from the anthers: Upon the twenty- 
fecond Lobferved that the larva were ufually in, the fituation re- 
prefented in the accurate drawing engraved in the. third volume of 
the Linnean Society’s Tranfactions (7). All circumftances confidered, 
it fecms to me moft probable, that tliefe animals do not feed upon the 
pollen before it is difchargedfrom the anthers(m); yetonewouldthink 
that in this cafe fufficient muft efcape them to fertilize the germen. 
How they prevent this I can but conjecture; as their heads are often 
. jmmerfed in the Atigmata, and in the down obfervable. upon the top 
of the germen, it is poffible they may penton. an. -obftru&ion i ME. 
thofe fine du&ts through which. the fertilizing principle patfes down 
-into the grain; or they may confume that Ípermatic moifture upon | 
the ftigma, | without the aid of which the pollen cannot perform its 
office. On the twenty-ninth the parent Tipule had all difappeared, 
and foon after this period my inveftigations were {topped by antes 
(i) Tab. iv. fig. i.d. (2) Fig. 2. e. (/) Tab. xxii. fig. tc. 
(m) Except perhaps Whee they are newly hatched. 
but 
