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INSECTS AS FUNGUS HOSTS. 
As an example of a beetle-larva affected by a related fungus, 
there is the accompanying specimen for which I am indebted to 
Mr. I' . Gore, of Yandilla. Here we have one of the redoubtable 
white grubs,” which sugar-planters know so well — the earlj 
condition of some scarabseid beetle, in a mummified condition with 
two contorted bodies, one simple and the other branched, 
springing like large horns one on either side from just behind 
the head. 
As for the house-fly and its disease. You may almo.st a 
any time notice an example of this familiar insect adherent t 
the window-pane, surrounded by a pale gray cloud made up c 
minute particles. Whilst at a slightly anterior date the fl; 
Itself will exhibit little pale-coloured tufts which have oozed on 
from between the rings of the abdomen. These tufts oi 
microscopic examination will be found to be composed of slende 
tubular vesicles, or ” flocci,” which adhere to one another, ead 
numerous spore-like bodies, which are in fac 
endowed^' liberated in a suitable niediuiii- 
chlks th motility. It is this fungu.s whid 
ltd whicr""Tri‘'‘‘ to an extent little suspected 
nototlv tr™'® artificially cultivates 
checkiim tl ’^‘th these domestic pests, but also for 
of about -0 ' credited with the destruction 
01 about oO per cent, of our soft fruits. 
considered ^ tungus-parasitism may be profitably 
noctuid inoth-a specTs tri h * 
that tbe lettuce had proved pdrontuslorim^ 
which had been found upon this , “^^“’‘^"^lycaterpiUar 
or in a moribund condition TT.ff already dead 
when examined were with one °*'*^nnately these caterpillars 
.1 fc.,, .na h JSe ■ boS SJfT; i" " 
the one .flbrfing ll,e ^eoKo . ' “ 
by uT0gal.r gt,,i,h („ti, oompletely coveted 
sugg^estive of brain convolutions appearance 
to be composed of hyphfe ' were found 
—which supported irregularis instances branched 
ovoid bodies, or conidia. 
