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TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 
tube or ovipositor, which she pokes into the moist ground, 
then lays her eggs. 
The larvae are almost cylindrical in shape, and have small 
the metamorphoses of Semblis lictaria. 
fore legs, and little tubercles which act as hind legs ; they are 
of a grey red colour, and have a few hairs. They live at a depth 
of a few lines, or an inch, in moist ground, and make tunnels 
