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Spider-Shaped Beetle [Fig. 1 30]. — The elytra of this 

 beetle are green or blue. It attacks, indifferently, the 

 leaves and young shoots, and, like the insect first de- 

 scribed, it lets itself drop to the ground, as if dead, at 

 the approach of a hand about to seize it. The female 

 lays her eggs in the leaves, which she rolls up [Fig. 

 131], and virhich may thus be easily recognized, and 

 taken off to burn. 



[Fig. 130.] — Spider-Shaped 

 Beetle. 



[Fig. 131.] — Fine -Leaf 

 rolled up by the Spider- 

 Shaped Beetle. 



[Fig. 122.]— Blue-Beetle 

 of DunaL 



Blue Beetle of Dunal [Fig, 132]. — This small beetle 

 appears about the end of April, and fastens on the 

 young shoots and the bunches, the stalks of w^hich it 

 eats. It pairs about the end of May ; a fortnight later, 

 lays its eggs on the underside of the leaves, and in the 

 last days of June, the larva is hatched — a small worm, 

 that eats the leaves. 



