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warily; but, look ccrefully as you may, you cannot perceive it. 

 Suddenly it starts up, a few yards before you, and dashes away, and 

 so on, till you abandon the pursuit. Its under side is of sober 

 browns, like the fencing on which it usually alights. Gosse took 

 this insect in the "Grove Lane" at Compton, P. Que. He named 

 It the "Compton Tortoise." (See Canadian Naturalist, p. 247). 



Along a by-road leading to the estate of the late Col. Calvin 

 Hall in East Farnham a row of white elms had been planted. 

 When I took notice of them, they were about fifteen feet high. It 

 was in the Fall of the year, when, from some cause or other, the 

 leaves of the elm curl over, and form rolls, on which the veins of 

 their under sides are very conspicuous. 



The trees I speak of had been visited by the Sphinx, Ceratomia 

 amyntor Hubner, and I found a number of the larvae of this insect 

 feeding upon them. Strange to say, the larvae took positions in 

 which they closely resembled the rolled leaves — the ribbed side- 

 lines of the caterpillars mimicking the veins of the leaves. 



As the season advanced, the leaves of the elms changed from 

 green to rusty brown, and a corresponding change took place in the 

 colour of the larvce. 



But it is time I brought this paper to a close. It is one of 

 reminiscences — a record of days gone by. I have written it in 

 the hope that some into whose hands it may fall may be led by it 

 to take a deeper interest in Nature Studies, to perceive a lit tie more 

 clearly some of the beauties in God's marvellous works, and to 

 look up with deeper feelings of love and reverence to Him, for 

 whose pleasure all these things are and were created. 



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