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The caterpillar feeds on oak and hazel, and may be found full fed, as at (&) and (e), the 

 latter end of May : it changes to a chrysalis within a spinning ; and the moth (if a male) is 

 produced in eighteen days after ; the female lays in chrysalis but seven days. The male has the 

 faculty of smelling the female at a very great distance ; some scruple not to say half a mile ; however 

 it is most certain they do smell them a great way : and I believe the Lepidoptera in general have 

 the same faculty in a greater or less degree, more especially those phalense whose females are 

 without wings. I have shewn the chrysalis of the male at (e). There are two broods of this 

 moth in summer, the latter appearing in September ; the caterpillars of which may be found full 

 fed in August, and the eggs, which are like small beads, lay during the winter ; and for to keep 

 them from the inclemency of which, the female covers them with a fine hair or down. 



Expansion of the wings 1-| — 1 \ inches. 



STROPHOSOMUS CORYLI. THE NUT BEETLE. 



Plate XIV. fig. h—m. 



fig. 12. 



Synonyms. Curculio Coryli, Fahricius Syst. Eleuth. ii. 524. Panzer Fauna Ins. Germ. II 

 Martyn Coleop. pi. 19. fig. 20. 

 Strophosomus Coryli, Schonherr, Stephens. 



The caterpillar of this beetle is produced from a small brown egg, fixed by the parent to the 

 hazel nut when the nut is very soft and tender. The caterpillar when hatched from the egg eats 

 through the shell immediately into the nut, without spoiling the outward form of the egg, which 

 still covers the hole or puncture ; but when it is grown pretty large, it begins to open the hole, 

 making it very round and smooth : this serves to give air, and throw out part of its dung when 

 it wants room : by the time the nut is full ripe, and falls to the ground, the caterpillar is fall fed, 

 and working itself through the hole, (which is done with seeming difficulty) it goes into the 

 mould, and changes to the nympha. The beetle appears the beginning of May following. I have 

 given a drawing of the nut at (m), with the hole as it is usually made by the caterpillar. At (h) 

 the nut is as broke open, and the caterpillar discovered within ; which is shewn again at (z) in full 

 proportion. The nympha is seen at (k), and the beetle which it produces is exactly figured at (7), 



Length of the body (including the rostrum) half an inch. 



The common Nut Weevil is the larva of another of the Curculionidse, namely, 

 the Balaninus Nucum, distinguished from the present by the much greater length 

 of its rostrum. Its history is represented by Rosel, whose figures have been copied 

 into most of our popular works on the natural history of insects. The female of this 

 species pierces the young nut with her rostrum, and then deposit san egg within the 

 fruit ; and the grub only makes an orifice in the shell when ready to become a pupa. 





HYBERNIA DEFOLIARIA. THE MOTTLED UMBER MOTH. 



Plate XIV. fig.w— r. 



Synonyms. 



Phalsena (Geometra) defoliaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 285. Hubner, Haworth, Albin's 



Ins. pi. 100. fig. e— h. Wilkes Eng. Moths, pi. 72. 

 Hybernia defoliaria, Latreille, Stephens. Curtis Brit. Ent. pi. 703. 



Upper Side. The antennae are a little pectinated, hut very fine and hair-like. The thorax 

 and ahdomen are of a lightish or pleasant brown. The superior wings are of a light orange, 

 freckled over with short brown strokes, and having two brown bars crossing each, of an unequal 

 breadth. The inferior wings are of the same colour with the upper ; but have no bars or lines 



