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there, cover up these pupje with its excrements, so 

 that they could scarcely be known." He adds with 

 great naivete, " I have learned these matters much 

 against my inclination, and have been full of wrath 

 against the insect for thus defiling and killing some 

 bee pupae which I had designed to observe in their 

 changes."* 



M. Bazin, a friend of Reaumur, discovered the 

 caterpillar of a moth of this order feeding on choco- 

 late, of which it seemed very choice, always prefer- 

 ring that which had the finest flavour. The moth is 

 sometimes produced in September, and sometimes in 

 the beginning of the following summer. It is pro- 

 bable that, like the cheese-fly, it might, in default of 

 chocolate, select some other aliment. t 



* Swammerdam, vol. i. p. 225. f Reaumur, vol. iii. p. 277. 



