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INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS, 



other accidental circumstances, seldom appreciable by 

 our most minute observations.* 



The history of other insects, erroneously referred to 

 blighting winds, is more easily traced, from their 

 being of a larger size than the aphides. The cater- 

 pillar for example, of Lozotcenia Rosana, mentioned 

 before, which rolls the leaf of the rose-tree, is one of 

 this kind. It is well known as furnishing the common 

 poetical comparison of ' a worm i' the bud.' Early 

 in autumn the mother insect deposits an irregularly 

 oval-patch of yellowish eggs, covered with a cement 



Two groups of eggs of the Rose-leaf roller (Lmotania Rota 

 7ia;oii a pane of glass. 



J. R. 



