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and hard. After the skin is deposited, 

 the worm leaves its hole and goes to the 

 roots of plants again. But when the 

 winter comes on and the ground becomes 

 hard and frozen, it goes again down deep 

 into the ground, and remains with- 

 out food till the weather gets warmer. 

 This will seem to some people incredible, 

 but if we dig the ground in the month of 

 May, when the chafer appears, we shall 

 see the worm, and not only of one, but of 

 all four sizes at several times, as figured 

 in 13, 14, 15, 16. The changing is per- 

 formed also by the worm going down 

 into the ground to the depth of more 

 than a yard, there it makes a hole, the 

 inside of which it makes smooth by its 

 excrements and moisture, so as to have 

 a safe and convenient place ; soon after, 

 it begins to swell and deposits its last 

 skin J it has now the form of fig. 17. 

 Many of these were kept in pots, but 

 the most part of them always died. It 

 looks first white, but gets by degrees 

 darker, and at last becomes a dirty 

 orange or reddish-yellow colour. The 



