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of the burro w, through which it escapes to the earth. 

 Reaumur considers that the attaching of the pellets 



of excrement together, and to the sides of the fruit, 

 by means of a thin web, has for its object the removal 

 of the annoyance which the larvse would experience 

 by these little masses being loose, and striking against 

 it every time the apple was shaken by the wind. 



One of these larvae is represented of the natural 

 size at a, and highly magnified at 6. It is of a dirty 

 white colour, with a brown head, varied with darkish 

 brown marks. The body is slightly hairy ; the 

 prothorax, or first segment after the head, is whit- 

 ish, with minute brown spots ; the other segments 

 are of a pale colour, with about eight small tubercles 



