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elms planted there, by eating the parenchyma, and leaving the skeleton of the 

 leaves drj and brown, that, at first sight, he supposed they had all been 

 blighted by some Deighbouiing manufactory oi' acid. These larvae are blackish, 



and exhale, when crushed, a most disagreeable smell. They coil up the 

 moment they are touched, and let themselves tall to the ground. The perfect 

 insect is extremely sluggish in its movements, counterfeiting death, in cases of 

 danger, rather than unfolding its wings to fly away. (See Diet. Classique 

 . X ;.'., art. Galeruque.) It conceals itself in the interstices of the bark, 

 under Stones, and between the bricks of walls ; and will produce, sometimes, 

 three generations in the course of one summer. The third is a species of 6 r 6s- 

 Bus (CVSssus Ligniperda Fab.), or Goat Moth (j%. 1233.), which has destroyed 



Innumerable trees, particularly in the neighbourhood of Paris. The larva 



! 833. a) is about .'i in. long, with its body sprinkled with slender hairs; 

 of ;t reddish brown on the back, becoming yellow beneath, with eight 

 breathing-holes on the sides, and a black head. It exhales a most disagreeable 

 odour, whirb i-, produced by an oily and very acrid liquor, which it discharges 

 from its mouth ; and the use of which is supposed to be to soften the wood be- 

 fore .' .». This liquor has a strong >cent,likethatofagoat, whence the 

 ne of the insect ifl derived. The pupa (<) is brown, the abdominal 



