224 Of the Wolf* 
fake their Food, and the little Cells they had 
formed of hollowed Grains of Corn, clotted 
together by Means of the Web coming from 
their Mouths, and wander about till they 
find fome Wooden Beam, or other Body to 
their Mind, into which they gnaw Holes 
with their fharp Fangs, capable of conceals 
Jng them ; and there enveloping themfelves 
in a Covering of their own Spinning, foon 
become metamorphofed into dark-coloured 
Aurelias 
Thefe Aurelias continue all the Winter 
unadive and harmlefs : but about April or 
May , as the Weather grows warm, they 
are transformed anew, and come forth 
Moths of the Kind above defcribed, They 
may then be feen in great Numbers taking 
little Flights, or creeping along the Walls > 
and, as they eat nothing in their Fly-ftate, 
are at that Time not mifchievous. But they 
foon copulate and lay Eggs (fhaped like Hen’s 
Eggs, but not larger than a Grain of Sand), 
each Female fixty or feventy, which, by 
Means of a Tube at the End of her Tail, fire 
thruffs or infinuates into the little Wrinkles, 
Hollows, or Crevices, of the Corn j where, 
in about fixteen Days, they hatch, and then 
the Plague begins : for the minute Worms 
or Maggots immediately perforate the Grain 
? Vide Experiment* & Centmpl. Epift. 71. 
they 
