*» niRECT INJURIES PHOM MOTHS. 



vegetable substance on which they had been de- 

 posited, and that they liad undergone transfonna- 

 tions into tlie larva state in his stomach. It is very 

 common for the larvoe of beetles, &c. to be generated 

 in the stomach, and voided alive, which can only be 

 accounted for by swallowing them in the egg state. 



Azara, a celebrated Spanish traveller, informs us, 

 that, in South America, there is a large brown moth, 

 which produces its eggs in a gelatinous substance 

 upon the skins of persons who sleep naked, where 

 they transfonn into the larva state ; then insinuate 

 themselves under the skin, producing swelling, in- 

 Hamniation, and excessive pain. These, when 

 noticed by the native Indians, are squeezed out. 

 They generally amount to five or six individuals.* 



A very destructive moth is the Antler moth, 

 BotiAijx Gramhiin cif Linnseus ; and, although less 

 frequently met with in this country than on the 

 Continent, is nevertheless sometimes a most trouble- 

 some pest to our farmers. In the year 1759 and 

 7 802, the caterpillar of this Phatena proved a dread- 

 ful scourge to many of the higher sheep farms of 

 Tweeddale in Scotland. In certain spots, the grass, 

 for a mile square, was totally devoured by it.t In 

 the year 17^0, 1741, and 17-1'2, in Sweden, these 

 larvee multiplied so prodigiously, and committed 

 such ravages, that the fields were quite eaten up by 



• AzAin's r™ve/.«, p. 217. -^ Farmers' Mag. ni. i&T, 



