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COLEOPTEHA OR BEETLES. 



over two inches in length, the end of the body swollen into 

 a large sac, with a large, brown, horny 

 head, and six almost nseless legs in front. 

 They live for two years, feeding on the 

 roots of plants and young trees, and pupate 

 deep in the earth in a well-formed cell in 

 the third summer. The chafers hatch 

 out some time before they come above 

 ground. Other allied injurious species 

 are the Garden chafer (PhyNope/iha horfi- 

 cola) and the Small or Summer chafer 

 {Rh izoti -oijuf! .lolsfitialis). 



Prevention and Remedies. — These de- 

 structive beetles often may be collected 

 in great numbers by shaking them off the 

 trees over tarred cloths, and then burning 

 them or giving them to pigs, which greedily 

 "Where land is infested with cockchafer grubs. 



Flfi. rn.— Ru.iE Bekti.f. 

 (Vetiniia auntta), and lar- 

 v.t. (Nicholson.) 



devour them. 



Pio. so,— CocKOHAVKR (Melolontha mJgaris). 

 A, Imago ; b, pupa ; c, larva ; d, tail of 9 ; E, antenna of ,5 ; f, antenna of ? . (.\, ij, 

 and c slightly reduced.) 



a good plan of clearing them out is to turn ^)/;/,-i into the 

 field when it is being ploughed : these animals grub about 



