INSECTS. 499 
THE SMALL SILVER-COLOURED BOOK-WORM 
MAGNIFIED. (Crambus pinguinella.) 
Insatiate brute, whose teeth abuse 
The sweetest servants of the muse ! 
His roses nipt in every page, 
My poor Anacreon mourns thy rage ; 
By thee my Ovid wounded lies ; 
By thee my Lesbia's sparrow dies ; 
Thy rabid teeth hath half destroy'd 
The work of love in Biddy Floyd ; 
They rent Belinda's locks away, 
And spoil'd the Blouzelind of Gay : 
For all, for every single deed, 
Relentless justice bids thee bleed. 
Then fall a victim to the Nine, 
Myself the priest, my desk the shrine. 
PARNELL. 
THIS small, white, silvery-shining worm, or caterpillar is 
found among books and papers, corroding and eating holes 
through the leaves and covers : it appears, to the naked 
eye, a small, glittering, pearl-coloured rnoth, which, upon 
the removing of books and papers in the summer, is often 
observed to go into some corner, where it may the better 
protect itself from apparent danger. Its head is blunt, 
and its body tapers towards the tail, being divided into 
fourteen several segments, having the appearance of so 
many several shells or shields. These shells are again co- 
vered or tiled over with a multitude of thin transparent 
