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ing curved egg galleries from a central 

 cavity. The eggs are placed in little niches 

 along the sides of these galleries, from which 

 minute larvae or grubs hatch and burrow at 

 right angles to the mother gallery through 

 the inner bark to the surface of the wood. 

 These are known as larval mines or food 

 burrows, because they are made by the larva? 

 in quest of food. When the larvae have 

 reached full growth, they transform, at the 

 end of the burrow, into adults like their 

 parents. Then they emerge and repeat the 

 process." 



This is the plain unvarnished tale of the 

 pine-carved bough, as courteously furnished 

 to the writer by Dr. A. D. Hopkins, the ex- 

 pert in charge at the Bureau of Entomology 

 in Washington. This, perhaps, is all that 

 science may demand. But, considered as a 

 highly specialized work of art, which it un- 

 deniably is, were it just or fitting to review 

 it wholly in a matter-of-fact way? Nay, 

 nay, that would be too much like estimating 

 as a historical record "A Midsummer 

 Night's Dream," to which this pictograph 



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