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der ground for eight days longer, as 

 the parts had not yet acquired sufficient 

 hardness j they then ventured to come 

 out of their dark habitation, and appeared 

 as such yellowish-brown curculios as are 

 represented accurately in %. 25, and 

 26, the first of which is the female, 

 the other the male, w^hich is always 

 thinner than the female, but for the rest 

 not in the least different from it. 



I have given this account of the above 

 small beetle, because it is of common 

 occurrence, and its mode of producing 

 young exhibits a very curious natu- 

 ral phenomenon ; and although this 

 creature is only found on the nut, yet 

 its mode of breeding will serve to ex- 

 plain another that almost every season 

 commits great destruction on the bloom- 

 ing buds of the apple and pear trees. 



During the autumn we frequently ob- 

 serve a small red beetle, which is busily 

 employed in traversing the branches of 

 the apple trees, and this is in its nature 

 similar to the last described, it lays its 

 eggs by perforating the bloom buds, and 



