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attached, as if frozen, to the branches. Ou, the lower stems are the 
cocoon of a Saw Fly, Trichiosoma lucorwm, and an old cocoon of ‘the 
Vapourer Moth, Orgyia antigua, employed as a winter bed for her eggs. 
Encircling a twig above the Butterfly is a bracelet-like cluster of the 
eggs of the Lackey Moth, Clisiocampa neustria . . ...- + + 9 
In the apparent death of winter. 
The author, Acheta domestica, in his propensity for burrowing among the 
hidden secrets of nature, explores a catacomb of the chrysalides of Moths 
and Butterflies, with the view of detecting life amidst frost, and snow, 
and torpor . . ee a ee a ee a ee 
7. 4 MILITARY EXPEDITION,—BATILE OF THE AMAZONS. 
An assemblage of two species of Ants, Formica rufa and cunicularia, illus- 
trating the mode in which the former attacks the latter, and seizes its 
larvee and pupze. In the foreground is an instance, not uncommon in 
insects, of an individual retaining its vitality after the loss of its body, 
and above are a winged male and female of the same species . . . 108 
How flows the tide of battle ? 
Ant Amazons, chieftains of Rufia, hand to hand with the citizens of Fusca, 
fighting for the rape and rescue of infant subjects to be converted by the 
iets Mae a a a eee 
8. INSECT AERONAUTS,—SPIDERS. 
On the left, suspended by its line, is the common Garden Spider, Epeira dia- 
dema; beneath it is the Labyrinthic Spider, Agelena labyrinthica, at the 
mouth of its hollow snare; and on the leaf adjoining is the green 
Long-bodied Spider, Tetragnatha extensa. The rotund species to 
the right, and the traveller by the cable bridge, are spinners of 
geometric webs, of which a small one with its minute artificer, 
Theridion, is represented as often seen construeted within the leaf of a 
nettle. The Mttle urn-shaped body on a leaf near the centre is a nest 
of peculiar form guarded by its ingenious weaver . . . . . - 126 
All seem bent upon ascension. 
A spider aeronaut ascending in his gossamer balloon . . . . . . . 139 
9. THE FRESH-WATER SIREN. 
The Great Water Beetle, Dytzscus marginalis, and the Diving Water Spider, 
