NATURE'S VOLUME. 



Berime,* Jardine,t Knapp,f Bunneister,|| and Westwood, 



have published their researches to the multitude in works, 

 which, were they as popular as they should be, would have a 

 place not only in every library, but in every body's hand, to 

 serve literally as hand-books in their country rambles. 



Return we now to the great volume on which the above 

 are but imperfect commentaries ! that volume, bound in 

 etherial blue, and at this our chosen chapter, printed in 

 living characters on leaves of every tint from vernal green 

 to the richest hues of autumn ; nay, on the brown or snow- 

 white sheet of winter, for at no season is the student of Ento- 

 mology presented with an entire blank. Even in the month of 

 January, besides our chirping representative of the hearth 

 and certain Gnats which disport over frozen pools, a sprinkling 

 of other Insects may be seen melting their frosted fluids in 

 the wintry sunbeam or the sheltered window. Numerous 



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others, hidden from all but practised eyes, are laid up snugly 

 in various hybernacula of which the discovery adds a zest to 

 their pursuit. Of these, some are concealed in caverns under 

 ground, some in beds of mud beneath the water, some are 

 ensconced in hollow trees, and behind or in crannies of their 

 bark, while others lurk within the tunnels of dry perforated 

 stalks, sleep within the domes of protecting gall-nuts, or lie 



Insect Transformations, Architecture, and Miscellanies. 



t Naturalist's Library : Beetles and Butterflies. 



J Journal of a Naturalist. || Manual of Entomology. 



Introduction to the Classification of Insects. 



