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legs, and two antennae or horns. It may just be 
distinguished with the naked eye. It feeds till the 
latter end of May or the beginning of June, when 
the female deposits her eggs, and afterwards dies. 
I am not positive whether there is more than one 
generation produced in one yeai‘ ; but I believe the 
egg remains inanimate till the back end of the 
year, when the young are brought forth, feed a 
little, and afterwards retires into the earth, or deep 
crevices at the bottom of the wall, and early in 
the spring ai’e exhilerated to resume their attacks. 
Even so early as the middle of February, when 
the weather proves favourable, these little animals, 
which for several months have been motionless, 
wander with great activity over the trees, hunting 
for food, but are frequently under the necessity of 
retiring without obtaining it. They principally 
derive their support from the leaves, and partly 
from the bloom. The trees being thus attacked, 
at so early a period of their growth, the mischief 
they commit is very great. They bite the edge 
of the leaves as they burst through their corticated 
covering, which for several weeks prevent the 
shoots making any progress, weakens the bloom, 
so that it drops off, and deprives the leaves of 
their juices, so that the sun and wind shrivels up 
their edges, and produce the appearance as though 
they had been scorched with fire. 
These, together with the Acarus Telarious, 
attacking the tree at so early a period, no doubt are 
the cause of what is commonly misconceived, and 
