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It's what I've always known as a leather-jacket. larva or chrysalis of
something.

Crane fly.

Except what I know as a leather jacket isn't what everyone else knows as
a leatherjacket, so it isn't a crane fly.

This thing is probably chrysalis rather than larva, is bright shiny
brown, earwig colour, pointed at one end.

The crane fly grub is the leatherjacket, but I'm pretty sure it pupates
into such a form as described.

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