The Ctkapk lioor-Womi; 



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ground and with a hand-glass or iiiagnilier watched the minute 

 grubs leave the egg and, after crawling al)out foi* a sliort time, fall 

 clumsily to the <>:round, not a sin^^le individual l^eiuir observed to 

 make its way down the vine. ()n reaching the ground there was 

 no attem])t made to burrow downward, and the i-oots appeared to 

 be reached by the wav of the cracks and crevices in tin; eai-rh, oi- 

 directly down about the base 

 of the vine, wliere, as a mat- 

 ter of fact, the lai'ger num- 

 ber would naturally fall, 

 though it is doubtful if nioi-e 

 than one grub out of a hun- 

 dred hatching from the eggs 

 would succeed in ]-eaching 

 the roots at all. Still, as the 

 little grubs will live for a 

 week or more without food, 

 and can run al)out on the 

 ground (juite actively, it is 

 not stranae that many of 

 them should find tlieir way 

 to one (d" the many fresh 

 succulent fibrous roots that 

 are found near the surface of 



the o-round. thouu-h I have H— %5'«. ^'^^^''^'^^ («^ ^^*^ ''^^'^'^-^O. «'^^ ^?^'^'/'"^?^ 

 , ,. . / . .size ai< laid in cruckn of the bark. {From 



seen them die ni droDpmjj- on ^,^ u * ^ ir 7 ^y\ 



^^ ^ )\ ebster and Murlatt.) 



the hot sand. In the spring- 

 grubs have been found fully thi'ee feet from the trunk and nearly 

 a foot below the surface. The grul) appears to develop very rapidly, 

 many having reached their full growth l)y the middle of August." 

 On Septembei' 18th, we foimd some of the grubs still at Avork on 

 the roots in New York. 



When the grubs get full grown in early autumn, they work theii- 

 way a little to one side of the root and form little earthen cells, 

 within which they renaain curled up without food during the winter 

 and until the following June, thus spending about nine months in 

 this manner. 



