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fleshy, of a whitish colour, with an ochreous head armed with strong jaws ; the pairs of 

 short feet are of a rusty ochreous colour, and the hinder portion of the grub or maggot 

 is enlarged, curved towards the head, and of a lead colour. These grubs are much like 

 those of the cockchafer, but are distinguished by ha\dng a horny rusty spot on each side 

 of the segment behind the head, and by the body being clothed with transverse rows of 

 rusty-coloured hairs ; whereas the grub of the cockchafer is almost hairless, and is without 

 the rusty spots. 



" When full-fed they make earth-cases ' as large as a walnut,' at a considerable depth 

 beneath the surface, which are smooth inside, but covered outside with pellets of soil 

 which have passed through their own bodies ; and in these cocoons they turn to ochre- 

 coloured pupae. 



"The Chafers, which sometimes appear as early as the beginning of May, are of 

 a rich metallic golden-green above, with white or ochreous spots or streaks looking like 

 cracks running across the bright green of the wing-cases ; beneath they are coppery, with 

 a rose-coloured tint. The horns are much like those of the cockchafer, excepting that 

 the club is formed of only three leaves. Beneath the wing-cases are large brown mem- 

 branous wings, by means of which, when they have finished whatever is eatable in one 

 place, they can fly with ease to another ; it may be a strawberry-bed, or may be field of 

 turnips in blossom ; and thus, if the weather is tine, they continue to attack whatever 

 may attract them throughout the summer; in wet weather they die earlier in the 

 season." 



