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buihels; but their number feemed not much lef- 

 fened, except juft in his own fields. 



Their mode oi coupling is fingularj and the time 

 of their continuance in that adl, fometimes two or 

 three days. I have i^tn one of them fly in that 

 flate, with the other hanging pendant from its 

 tail J and am in fome doubt whether (like fnails) 

 they are not hermaphrodites^ as there feems to be 

 mutual infertion. 



They depofit their eggs in the earth. The firft 

 year the grubs are very fmall, and do little mifchief; 

 the fecond year they are increafed to the fize of a 

 goofe-quill, and are very injurious to the herbage j 

 the third year they attain full fize, and fly. 



E. RACK. 



Bathy March 26, 1780. 



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