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down one of their holes, for the grub will push it out, and rising above ground in his 

 efforts may be captured. Here is a hole, and down goes a straw. Master Cicindela does 

 not like vegetables, and so seeks to reject it with his broad head ; when he shows himself 

 we quickly seize him. A perfect Daniel Quilp we find him, with head enormous, flat, 

 metallic colour, armed with long curved jaws. The legs are six in number, and on the 

 back, half way between the legs and tail, " are two curious tubercles, each terminating in 

 a pair of recurved hooks." The head and first division of the body are horny, the rest of 

 the creature is soft. " The larva has all the desire for slaughter evinced by its parents, but its 

 delicate skin, long body and short legs, not only prevent it from chasing prey, but from 

 attempting a struggle with an insect of any size; nevertheless this imperfectly armed creature 

 manages to obtain its food without exposing itself to much risk. With its short, thick, 

 spiny legs it loosens the earth, and then using its flat head as a shovel, and turning itself 

 into a Z, hoists up the clay and upsets it around the mouth of its intended hole. With 

 head and legs, perseverance and time, it sinks a shaft as large in diameter as a lead pencil, 

 and about a foot in depth. (Dr. Duncan says that in England G. campestris runs a hori- 

 zontal gallery as well.) The loose earth around the opening gives way on the approach 

 of any insect and precipitates it into the jaws of the Cicindela, which then descends into 

 its cavern and there at its leisure devours its food." The insect crawls in its tunnel with 

 ease, and if it wishes to remain set fast it sticks the back of its body against the sides and 

 rests safely with the aid of its hooks. In this position it can poke its head out of the 

 ground, thus closing the entrance of its tunnel and awaiting until some ant or other 

 insect passes over. The top of the larva's head forms the floor of the cavity, and when an 

 insect touches it the larva descends at once and with great precipitation, and thus the 

 victim falls into the hole. When fully grown the larva closes up the mouth of its abode, 

 and in quiet and solitude undergoes its metamorphosis, lying dormant during the winter 

 months. 



The Tomato Worm ( Sphinx quinque-maculata, Haworth.) 

 By the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope, Out. 



Almost everyone, I imagine, has had at some time or other his wonder and curiosity 

 excited by the strange-looking pupa of the tomato worm, as it is familiarly termed. It 

 is frequently discovered when digging potatoes in the autumn, or disturbing the soil where 

 tomatoes have been grown. This singular object, which is very correctly represented in 

 the figure, is about two and a half inches long and half an inch in diameter, of a chestnut 

 brown colour, and round in shape, tapering towards both ends ; from one end, which is the 

 head of the specimen, there proceeds a long curved proboscis like the handle of a jug \ 

 the other end is divided into broad rings, and terminates in a point. To one who had 

 never seen anything of the kind before, this object must at first prove a great puzzle ; but 

 a little careful examination will remove some of the mystery. It must be alive, for the 

 tail end moves ; but it cannot walk or crawl, and is quite helpless. If we examine it 

 more closely, we find that the rings that move when the creature is touched are very like 

 the rings of a large caterpillar, while at the other end we can trace the eyes, antennae, and 

 even the short wings of a moth, but all enclosed in a hard brown shell. These things 

 show us that it is an insect in its helpless pupa state ; the long jug-handle is the case 

 which contains its tongue for sucking out the nectar from flowers. If we keep it in some 

 damp earth till the next year, there will emerge from it a large handsome moth, of an 

 ashen-grey colour, relieved by five bright orange-yellow spots on each side of its body ; its 

 wings expand fully five inches in length, and its body is about the same length as the 

 pupa or chrysalis ; its tongue is of immense length, about double that of the body — when 

 at rest it is coiled up like a watch-spring beneath the head of the insect. The name of 

 the creature is the five-spotted sphinx \Sphinx ( Macrosila ) quinque-maculata, Haworth]. 



The larva or caterpillar of this insect, when fully grown, is larger than it is shown in 

 the figure, being as thick as a man's little finger, and over three inches in length. It 

 feeds on the leaves of both the tomato and potato plants. It varies so much in colour 



