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perforating the earth underneath the dung of 

 animals, he becomes a valuable agent, render- 

 ing that which -would be deleterious in the 

 mass productive by dispersion. 



Lampyris noctiluca. The bulk of entomo- 

 logists have copied each other in the error of 

 asserting that the female glow-worm alone is 

 luminous j at any rate, all the males taken in 

 this county (and they are unquestionably of 

 this species), have had luminous segments to 

 the abdomen. 



Cryptorhynchus Lapathi. This insect, in 

 its larva state, does incredible mischief in osier- 

 holts: the basket-makers call it the weevil- 

 maggot. I am informed, by a cultivator of 

 osiers, that the perfect insect appears abund- 

 antly every alternate year. This may indicate 

 its duration in the larva state. 



Balaninus Nucum. A most curious insect, 

 with a rostrum, extremely slender and longer 

 than its body. It inhabits hazel bushes, and 

 with its rostrum perforates the nut whilst 

 young, depositing one egg in each ; the wound 

 heals, and the larva, which proceeds from the 

 egg, is completely enclosed by the shell ; it 

 feeds upon the kernel till full grown, when it 



