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into small green larvae of a pinkish hue along the back and with a very long pink horn at 

 the tail. As the caterpillar increases in size the tail becomes shorter, and after a while 



curves round, as shown at c in fig. 2. As 

 the larva approaches maturity it changes to a 

 reddish-brown colour, and after the third 

 moult entirely loses the caudal horn, which 

 is replaced by a glassy eye-like spot. The 

 mature larva when in motion, as shown at a, 

 fiof. 2, will measure nearly four inches in 

 length, but when at rest it draws the head 

 and two adjoining segments within the fourth, 

 as shown in the figure at h, which shortens 

 its length nearly an inch, giving it a very 

 odd appearance with its anterior portions so 

 blunt and thick. It is of a rich reddish 

 brown colour, of a lighter shade along the 

 back, with five or six nearly oval cream- 

 coloured spots along each side from the fifth 

 to the tenth segments inclusive ; sometimes 

 the spot on the fifth segment is indicated by 

 a dot only, in other instances entirely want- 

 ing. On the anterior segments there are a 

 number of black dots ; a dark polished raised 

 eye-like spot in place of the tail ; stigmata 

 black, showing prominently in the cream- 

 coloured spots along the sides. 



It is a very voracious feeder, and where 

 present strips the vine so rapidly of its 

 leaves that it soon attracts attention. When 

 full grown it descends and buries itself in 

 the ground, where it forms an oval cell, within 

 which it changes to a chrysalis. 



The chrysalis is of a chestnut brown colour, 

 with the segments roughened with impressed 

 points, the terminal ring having a long thick spine. The insect usually remains in the 

 chrysalis state until the following summer, but sometimes it hatches the same season. 

 In the 9th vol. of the Canadian Entomologist, p. 120, an instance of this sort is recorded 

 by Mr. R. Bunker, of Rochester, where the larva became a chrysalis on the 1st of 

 August, and produced the moth on the 10th of September. Should these larvss at any 

 time prove troublesome, they can be readily subdued by hand-picking. 



Fig. 2. 



The Indian Cetonia (Euryomia inda). 



This is a stout, hairy beetle (fig. 3), which makes its appearance early in spring, 

 usually towards the end of April or beginning of May, flying about in open fields and 

 about the borders of woods, with a loud buzzing sound resembling that of a 

 bumble bee. It belongs to the flower beetles, most of whom live on pollen 

 and the honey of flowers, and are fond of sweets. 



This insect is of a brownish-gray color, dotted and spotted with blackish 

 and thickly covered with short greenish-yellow hairs. It measures half an 

 inch or more in length. During the summer it disappears, but a second 

 brood comes out in the fall, usually during September, when they may be 

 found feeding on the pollen of flowers and also upon the sweet sap of plants 

 and trees. Not content with this, they attack our finest and most luscious 

 fruits, eating their way into the richest ripening pears and burrowing into the finest 

 peaches so deeply that only the tips of their bodies are visible, and in this way spoiling 

 the fruit and inducing rapid decay. They also attack grapes and other sweet fruits. 



Fig. 3. 



