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Crane fiy oviji 



th, feeding 



pared off from the surface, the only plant untouched 

 being the tiny bird tare (Oniilliopus pcrpusillus). 

 On digging here to learn the cause, we found these 

 larvae already lull-fed, and about to pass into pupae, 

 after having left nothing upon which they could subsist. 

 It was not a little remarkable that they seemed to be 

 all. '..'ther confined to this spot; for we did not meet 

 with ii single foot of turf destroyed l)y them in any 

 other })art of the heath, or in the adjacent fields. So 



