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Spider-Shaped Beetle [Fig. 130]. The elytra of this 

 beetle are green or blue. It attacks, indifferently, the 

 leaves and young shoots, and, like the insect first de- 

 scribed, it lets itself drop to the ground, as if dead, at 

 the approach of a hand about to seize it. The female 

 lays her eggs in the leaves, which she rolls up [Fig. 

 131], and which may thus be easily recognized, and 

 taken off to burn. ^ ff \ 



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[Fie. 130.] Spidtr-Sbaptd 



Beetle. 



[FiG. iy.]Wn 



rolled up by the Spider 

 Shaped Beetle. 



[FiG. 132.] Blue-Beetle 

 of DunaL 



Blue Beetle of Dunal [Fig. 132]. This small beetle 

 appears about the end of April, and fastens on the 

 young shoots and the bunches, the stalks of which it 

 eats. It pairs about the end of May ; a fortnight later, 

 lays its eggs on the underside of the leaves, and in the 

 last days of June, the larva is hatched a small worm, 

 that eats the leaves. 



