3^4 



TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 



egg tube or ovipositor, which she pokes into the moist ground, 

 and then lays her eggs. 



The larvse are almost cylindrical in shape, and have small 



THE METAMORPHOSES OF Scviblis lutaria. 



fore legs, and little tubercles which act as hind legs; they are 

 of a grey red colour, and have a few hairs. They live at a depth 

 of a "few lines, or an inch, in moist ground, and make tunnels 



