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attached, as if frozen, to the branches. Ou the lower stems are the 

 cocoon of a Saw Fly, Trichiosoma lucorum, and an old cocoon of the 

 Vapourer Moth, Orgyia antiqua, 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, Clisiocarnpa neustria 92 



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 10? 



7. A MILITARY EXPEDITION -BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS. 



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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 

 larvre and puprc. In the foreground is an instance, not uncommon 111 

 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 Tusca, 

 fighting for the rape and rescue of iufant subjects to be converted by the 

 aggressors into slaves 125 



8. INSECT AERONAUTS Sl> ID TJIS. 



( )u 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 constructed within the leaf of a 

 nettle. The little urn-shaped body on a leaf near the centre is a nest 

 of peculiar form guarded by its ingenious weaver 12G 



All seem bent upon ascension. 

 A spider aeronaut ascending in his gossamer balloon 139 



9. THE FRESH- Jl'ATER SIREN. 



The Great Water Beetle, Dytisrvs manjiiialis, and the Diving Water Spider, 



