samouelle's 



The larvoe or caterpillars of this family of insects 

 are known as the celebrated book-worm, and are a 

 serious nuisance in warm climates ; for this reason 

 most books sent to the East Indies are bound in 

 Russia leather. Of the length of time they remain 

 in the larvse state we have yet to learn. Mr. Kirby 

 on the indirect injuries caused by insects mentions 

 an instance where, in a public library, but little 

 frequented, twenty-seven folio volumes were perfo- 

 rated in a straight line by the same insect, in such 

 a manner that on passing a cord through the per- 

 fectly round hole made by it, these twenty-seven 

 volumes could be raised at once. 



