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INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS. 



accidenta circumstances, seldom appreciable by our 

 most minute observations *. 



The history of other insects, erroneously referred to 

 blighting winds, is more easily traced, from their being 

 of a larger size than the aphides. The caterpillar, 

 for example, of Lozotcenia Rosalia^ mentioned be- 

 fore, which rolls the leaf of the rose-tree, is one of 

 this kind. It is well known as furnishing the common 

 poetical comparison of " a worm i' the bud.'' Early 

 in autumn the mother insect deposits an irregularly 

 oval-patch of yellowish eggs, covered with a cement 



r.'^Ax. 



Two groups of eggs of the Ro;.e-lcaf roller {Lozotccjiia R/jsam') 

 on a pane of glass. 



* J. R. 



