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A Destructive Cockcnarer (Anoplosthetus Opalinus, Brulle). 
Cockchafers are large beetles, belonging to a family known as 
Scarabaeidae or Lamellicornes. Mr. Lea, in writing on this insect, 
says :—‘Nearly all the members are destructive in their larval stages, 
when they feed upon roots, decaying wood, or actually bore through 
