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Article LX. 



Defcrtptton of^ a7id Ohfervations oriy the Cock'« 

 Chaffer, in its Grub and Beetle States > 



[By the Secretary of the Society.] 



A S there are few infedls more prejudicial to the 

 ^ ^ farmer than that generally known by the 

 nanne of the Cock-Chaffer^ I beg leave to make a 

 few obfervations thereon. 



In different parts of this kingdom thefe infedls 

 are called by different names, fiich as the Chaffer^ 

 t\\^ Cock-Chaffer y the Jeffry -Cocky the May-bugy and 

 (in Norfolk) the Dor. 



In what clafs Llnnasus ranks them, I do not re- 

 member -y but they feem to be the Scaraheus arho-^ 

 reus vulgaris major of Ray. 



When full grown in their grub-ftate, they are 

 near an inch and a half long, and as big as a child's 

 little finger. Their heads are red, their bodies 

 foft, white, and ftiining, with a few hairs on the 

 back. They have three hairy legs on each fide, 

 all placed near the head, in which are two/orceps 

 or jaws, like the hornet j with thefe they cut afunder 



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