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ST. SELENA. 
(‘ tog-worm,’ as it is here named, from hogs being extremely fond 
of it) which is found in great numbers in old grass-lands when 
newly broken up. It has not hitherto been injurious to potatoes 
or crops of corn, yet it is very destructive to pasture-lands. I 
knew not until lately the cause of the barren appearance I had 
observed in many parts of the pastures; I had been told it pro- 
ceeded from the shallowness of the soil, or from barren clays under 
the soil; but, upon breaking up some old lays, it was discovered that 
under these apparently barren spots, this ‘ large white grub, with a 
red head, six short legs, and nine breathing-holes in each side, and 
measuring from an inch to an inch and a half in length,’ had been at 
work, and had absolutely separated the sward for an inch or more 
from the subsoil. I have examined many spots where the verdure 
had disappeared, and invariably have found this destructive maggot. 
I have seen some taken out at twelve or fifteen inches under the 
surface, and, at other times, have caught them destructively employed 
within a few inches of the grass, feeding on its roots and occasioning 
the mischief. It is said that the only way of destroying these 
creatures is to turn a herd of swine for a few days into the field 
where they are ; they destroy both grass and grubs, but of the two 
evils they are the least. I have also found this insect under stones 
on the low barren plains near Prosperous Bay. 
Fam. Fla f erula . 
Anchastus, Lee. 
*A. atlanticus, Cand. — A long, thin Beetle, three-eighths of an 
inch in length, black on the upper and somewhat whitish on the 
under surface. It is found under stones, in the dry earth to the 
eastward of Arnos Yale ; and I have also captured it on the top 
of Flagstaff Hill, on the eastern side of the Island, at an altitude 
of 2000 feet above the sea. 
Fam. Cleridce. 
Corynetes, Hbst. 
C. rufipes, Thunb. — A Beetle which Mr. Wollaston recognises 
as a common European species, and which has doubtless made its 
way into St. Helena, as it has to Ascension, the Canarian, and Cape 
