196 JUNE. 



Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done 

 A deed of dreadful note. 



But, independent of poetic associations, this insect is 

 of real utility to the agriculturist. By perforating 

 the earth underneath the dung of animals, he becomes 

 a valuable agent, rendering that which would be 

 deleterious in the mass productive by dispersion. 



Lampyris noctiluca. The bulk of entomologists 

 have copied each other in the error of asserting that 

 the female glow-worm alone is luminous : 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 in- 

 formed, by a cultivator of osiers, that the perfect 

 insect appears abundantly 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 pro- 

 ceeds from the egg, is completely enclosed by the 

 shell ; it feeds upon the kernel until full grown, when 

 it eats its way out, retires under ground, and changes 

 to a pupa, appearing next year as a perfect insect 



Cerambyx moschatus. One of our largest and 

 most beautiful indigenous beetles, may be found 



