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INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS. 



Crane fiy ovipositing, and the larva beneath, in the earth, feeding 

 upon grass roots. 



pared off from the surface, the only plant untouched 

 being the tiny bird tare (Ornithopus perpusillus). 

 On digging here to learn the cause, we found these 

 larvae already full-fed, and about to pass into pupae, 

 after having left nothing upon which they could subsist. 

 It was not a little remarkable that they seemed to be 

 altogether confined to this spot; for we did not meet 

 with a single foot of turf destroyed by them in any 

 other part of the heath, or in the adjacent fields. So 



