OF THE INSECT LAYING ITS EGGS. 71 



charge several eggs, which I distinctly saw; 

 they were round and almost as small as dust, 

 of a light brown colour, and very hard ; I then 

 examined the fly, which was not dead, neither 

 could I kill it till I pinched the head ; it was a 

 venemous looking fly, with a shining black 

 head, and two prominent eyes, with two horns 

 full a quarter of an inch long, the body of the 

 fly was also black ; it measured three-quarters 

 of an inch from the head to the tail, and an 

 inch from the tail to the end of the horns ; it 

 looked venemous, and was very handsome. 



FIRST DISCOVERY OF THE INSECT LAYING ITS 

 EGGS, WITH OTHER REMARKS. 



Par. 82. I next turned my attention to the 

 tree where it had been so busy, and examined 

 the spots where I saw it settle, and there I saw 

 in three different places an egg, but one in par- 

 ticular I saw distinctly, with a little mucus 

 attached to it ; this induced me to mark the 

 tree, and the spot where I saw the egg so dis- 

 tinctly ; I continued to watch it almost daily for 

 about three weeks, when I saw a spot of white 

 exactly where the egg was laid, and in a few 

 days it covered about as much space as would 

 contain a sixpence ; this was rather in a hollow 

 where a shoot had been cut off, and the bark 

 had not quite healed over ; I allowed the insect 



