REMARKS ON BUTTERFLIES. 



pass through nearly the same changes as the 

 apple-fly. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE SMALL BROWN CHAFER, 

 WHICH IS SO INJURIOUS IN NURSERIES, &C. 



Par. 91. The first I will mention is a small 

 brown chafer, which is well known to nursery- 

 men, particularly about London ; this chafer, 

 like other chafers, is fond of laying its eggs 

 under ground, close to a tree for protection ; 

 they hatch early in spring, and become a small 

 brown maggot ; it is a very great enemy to 

 the apricot and other buds ; for early in the 

 spring, when the insect comes to life, it crawls 

 up the stem, and forms a sort of web for its 

 protection beside the bud ; and when the young 

 bud of the apricot puts forth, this insect wiU 

 get into it and eat it off, and sometimes eat it 

 completely out; the consequence is, if they 

 shoot again, it is with twin shoots, and fre- 

 quently so late that the trees do not grow near 

 so strong. This insect, like the apple-fly, after- 

 wards turns into the small winged chafer, as 

 before described ; but there is another cater- 

 pillar or maggot, which is very injurious to buds 

 in spring, it turns to a brown moth. 



REMARKS ON BUTTERFLIES. 



Par. 92. From the accounts I have read 



