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regard to the economy of the insect, related and accompanied by an admirable 

 engraving, in Curtis's British Entomology, a work which, for the accuracy of its 

 engravings and the exactness of their colouring, stands, I think, unrivalled.-— 

 During the autumn of 1834, whilst in Suffolk, and engaged in breeding a few 

 larvae of Sphingidce and other Lepidoptera, I procured two fine specimens of the 

 caterpillar of the Goat Moth, which, from their size and general appearance, I 

 judged to be near their time of change into the pupa state. I placed one of them in 

 a large white basin with a small quantity of rotten wood, &c, as it had previ- 

 ously escaped from a drawer in which I had put it pro tempore. On my return to 

 the room, after an absence of an hour or two, I found that my prisoner had 

 again made its escape, and was crawling at large on the floor of the apartment ; 

 and upon looking into the basin, I discovered on one side of it a zigzag web or 

 ladder, extending from the bottom to the edge, and which had evidently served as 

 the means of its escape from so slippery a prison. As I was not in the room at 

 the time, I had not an opportunity of witnessing its modus operandi, which 

 would no doubt have amply rewarded my attention, not only with respect to the 

 arrangement, but also the fixing of its flimsy threads to a wall, at once so ill 

 adapted for adhesion, and the support of its large and heavy body, and this too 

 after I had witnessed several of its ineffectual efforts to escape. 



I did not then think of repeating the experiment, either with this or the other 

 caterpillar (which I had lodged more safely), but in a short time both disappeared 

 within the pieces of Willow prepared for them. 



Doncaster, April 27, 1838. E. 



LEICESTERSHIRE FLORA. 



By the Rev. Andrew Bloxam. 



(Continued from p. 83.) 



Class XIII. — Papaver argemone. — P. dubium. — P. rkceas. — Ckelidonium mq~ 



jus. — Helianthemum vulgare. Near Croft and Enderby. — Tilia Europcea. In 



a lane near Coton. — T. grandifolia. In plantations. — T. parvifolia. Near the 



toll-gate between Measham and Ashby. — NymphcBa alba. Ponds at Sheepey ; 



Braunston. — Nuphar lutea. Common. — Helleberis foetidus. Road-side near 



Leir, on the way to Ashby parva. — Aquilegia vulgaris. Near Mount Bosworth, 



on the road to Osbaston. — Thalictrum flavum. River Soar; near Glenfield; 



Congerstone. — Anemone nemorosa. — Ranunculus aquatilis. — R. hederaceus.— 



R. lingua. Grooby Pool ; Pond on Mr. Hassal's Farm, Glenfield. — R.Jlammula. 



— R.fiearia. — R. auricomus.-~R. sceleratus.—R. acris. — R. repens. — R. bul- 



