„cti„„ I do BOt tuow ; in some kept «„de. ob»e™t,on, .bo. a do.en e i^ had 
,en laid m tl.ee week, from tbe date of con,me„ce»ont of a burrow T e Bg, 
. situated rather Cose,, together, each in aUttle hollow .oooped o»' <>"^» >'" ^ ; 
,d they, as well as the inster.paoe. between them, are oovered over w,th a layer 
Vne fras,,whioh doe, not appear to have been -ten , .0 that the s.des a 
,„pleted burrow are formed of this frass, behind which are the eggs. The larv» 
art in e«ry direotion fron, the parent gallery, but tend to travel vert ca ly ; so 
::, When fan grow, most of them do so. The greater ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
.erfeot beetles in late autumn, and pass the winter at the ends ot the larval 
:tws lowly eating a gallery upward, or downwards, aeoording to the d.reot,^ 
hTlarvIl gallery had assumed. I have seen galleries so eaten for wmter sustenauoe 
uore than an inoh long , the majority, however, eat very httle 
What beeome, of those beetle, that eseape in autumn I donothnow, he.r 
.umber i. not great. Other,, also few in number, remain as larva, thronghont he 
r.^; 1^1 have found odd beetles, and eve. larv», under barh from wh.ch the 
broods had apparently gone during the previou, year. 
.hanT::r::-::r:r'r:=::=:^:^ 
™edwith those that ,tm oontai.it; whereas, withP.W.odod«.,l.»,abandoned 
"Ss ate rare. Thisprobably arise, from r«a*!» more eompletely separating 
he barM eavin> a very beautiful " typograph"), and from the smaller ,..e o the 
brucL. aLte°d by itLsiug them m.eh sooner to aasnme the -peet °f ^e^ - 
„tten wood : whereas those long abandoned by .bs„r,.» often con.nu o loot a, 
if they might oontain the beetle, until they are qmte rotten. ^ ""^ '^^.°°"»" 
4ely stem, of fur.e without traees of oto.r.,, but only a small proporfo. w.th 
hafbe tie still present, I have also foundit, though not abnndautly, .n broom^ 
The parent galle,-y of ob.»,« has only one branch, wh.eh.s "'y str^M 
.oourately transverse to the stem, and | of a. inoh to an mch m length. I usually 
and only one beetle in it, but I have several times found a second, wh.oh I beh^e to 
have been the male, and in these cases there wa, usually an abort.™ branch of the 
bZwL the oppose direction from the main one, about thele.gtb of the beetle, 
apparently eaten by the male for food, and containing no eggs. 
The eggs are laid at the bottom ot little cavities on e.ther .,de of he burrow, 
and covered by fra„, which mis the cavities to the level of the wa 1 of the burrow 
of which there is usually a small unoccupied portion between -■='';-'';• ^f"" 
such a length that it looks as if four or hve egg, he^ been <>»" '«< . " ™ '2- 
posed that the male, or several different males, came and --'""""B « 'J 
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