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wirhin their choice, being usually found on nn expos- 

 ed currant branch, or under the upper cross-bar of a 

 paUng. We observed one, during several months of 

 the winter of 1828-9,. stationary under tiie lintel of a 

 door, where a continual current of air must have ren- 

 dered it exceedingly cold. We have endeavoured to 

 rouse some of these from their semi-torpidity by keep- 

 ing them in a warm room; but though they would 

 make a few lethargic and unwilling movements, none 

 of them would eat, and the change always proved 

 fatal* 



We might be led from this instance to conclude 

 that caterpillars, not covered with hair, become tor- 

 pid during winter; but such general conclusions from 



a Yoni^T c .terpillar of the dn!i>:er. 6, the s'ime full grown, 

 slriooth 'catei pillar of the angle shades, d, the moth ot the 



* J. R. 



