greedy devourers, aud their mothers, by one of those instincts we can never be tired of examining into and 

 admiring, deposit their eggs where a supply of food will afterwards be produced for them. The larger Tijtulas 

 known as " Daddy Longlegs " live under ground in the shape of a maggot without legs aud possessing a 

 scaly head; these crawl upwards in the stems of Agarics, &c., on which they feed, but after they have 

 acquired wings, although from their awkward flight and habit of entangling their long legs, they may be 

 seen crawHng among the various autumnal products of the soil, their object is not food but a proper site 

 wherein to place the treasure their parental care is engrossed by. 



Our little friend A. pyxidatus has rarity as well as beauty to recommend it, and its greeting us when 

 few others are to be found adds to the pleasure of seeing it ; if it is of no use eitiier to us or the Tijndas, at 

 any rate it is not open to the reproach of " cumbering the ground " — it occupies a very small space of our 

 fair CO nun on. 



