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yet I have fcarcely ever found more than one pupa in an ear, and 
had to examine feveral to meet with that. What then becomes of 
the remainder of the larve? Are they deftroyed by that of the Ich- 
neumon? or do they become the prey of fome other infeé& ?) or do 
they fall to the ground when'they aflume the pupa, and remain there 
until the following Spring? |'To'give a pofitive anfwer to any one 
of thefe queries I fhall not pretend; ‘I will only relate circumftances, 
and point out what from them appears:to.me:to be moft probable. 
The pupz that I have obferved shave generally been fomewhat at- 
tached to the grain, and, what is’ worthy of notice, I neverifound 
them within thofe florets where the larve had ‘taken up. their refi- 
dence ; they feem invariably to choofe for their habitation, in their 
intermediate ftate,.one where the grain is uninjured,'to which they 
may attach themfelves. » A queftion here -arifes, how they contrive 
to get from one floret to another, having no feet? but as I have 
never feen them do this, I will not attempt to.conjecture how they 
do it. In the field above-mentioned, I:took up many roots of ftub- 
ble, with a large lump of earth round them, to fee if I could dif- 
cover any of the pupz concealed in it); : but.if they were'there, they 
efcaped my eye, from their minutenefs: yetit feems not probable, nor 
analogous to the general proceedings of nature, that it fhould be in= 
different to them whether they go underground, or remain in the ear, 
when they afflume the pupa. That they are deftroyed by any other 
infe& than the Ichneumon, { have'no redfon to believe, having never 
feen them attacked by any other; therefore it feems to me moft proba- 
ble that this little friend to man is the deftroyerof by far the greateft 
partof them. If this be the cafe, what a benefactor to the human 
race is this diminutive animal! and how. ought we.to admire and 
adore the wifdom and goodnefs of Divine Providence, i in thus fetting 
bounds to the ravages of an infect, which, however infignificant it 
/ may 
