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there, cover up these pupae with its excrements, so 

 that they could scarcely be known.' He adds with 

 great na'ivett', ' I have learned these matters much 

 against my inclination, and have been full of wrath 

 against the insect for thus defiling and killing some 

 bee pupas which I had designed to observe in their 

 changes.'* 



M. Bazin, a friend of Reaumur's, discovered the 

 caterpillar of a moth of this order feeding on choco- 

 late, of which it seemed very choice, always pre- 

 ferring that which had the finest flavour. The moth 

 is sometimes produced in September, and some- 

 times in the beginning of the following summer. 

 It is probable that, like the cheese-fly, it might, in 

 default of chocolate, select some other aliment. "f 



* Swammerdam, vol. i, p. 225. t Reaumur, vol. iii, p. 277. 



