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TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 



black ; the female is almost entirely yellow, and is spotted with 

 black. The adult insect flies during the summer months, and the 



T]IE METAMORPHOSES OF Lophyms pini. 



females saw the tissues of the twigs and fine stems of fir-trees, 

 and insert their eggs. The females are so industrious, and are 

 so prolific, that vast numbers of eggs arc laid upon a tree, and 

 the parent seems to know that there will be enough and to 



