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INVERT EBKATES. 



The Death-Watch is now generally known to be m<re!j 

 a Hmail beetle. Indeed it is nothing more than the creature that 

 perforates the round holes in old "worm-eaten" furniture and 

 wood-work. The " ticking " is produced by striking the head 

 against the wood. If there is a Death-Watch in the room, it is 

 easy to incite it to begin to tick, by striking with the head of a 

 pin on the panelling. There are several insects that produce this 

 sound, the Anobium striatum, iesselatum, and pertinax. The last 

 named is so called from the pertinacity with which it simulatoa 

 death if alarmed, preferring to suffer the severest treatment rather 

 than give signs of life. 



The Cockchaffeb needs not much description. Its larva 

 works groat mischief during the spring, as it feeds on the roots 



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The CockcTiaffer Beetle. 



of plants, and cuts them off with its sharp sickle-like jaws. Where 

 many of these "grubs" have been, the grass curls up, and dries 

 hko hay. One farmer actually collected eighty bushels of the 

 grubs of the" Cockchaffer on his farm. Fortunately the thrushes, 



