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weather is milder or colder, sooner or 

 later,) in the form of a chafer. About this 

 time one may observe them in the even- 

 ing coming out of their old habitations 

 here and there, fig. 18., and if their 

 number is great, one may see in many 

 places on the ground, as in footpaths, &c. 

 many round holes, fig. 19- Fig 20, and 

 21, shew two full grown chafers. 



Thus have we a curious and instruc- 

 tive lesson conveyed through the history 

 of one of nature's meanest productions, 

 but we must regard it as one of those 

 links in the grand scale, which like every 

 individual wheel in a clock, is necessary 

 to the welfare of all, and from which we 

 may in some degree devise how to check 

 their baneful influence. Let us contem- 

 plate the facts that some of the tribes of in- 

 sects are produced by putting a plant in 

 a pot in the sun, without the admission 

 of the atmosphere, as it will then have 

 insects on it ; and we see no appearance 

 for years together of the brown-tail moth 

 so very destructive in some seasons to 

 our hedges, although it must be during this 



