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vicinity of the town; but they refused to touch any 

 which we offered tiiem. After they had fasted several 

 days, we at length procured some fresh branches of 

 the bird-cherry, with which they gorged themselves 

 so that most of them died. Last summer (18'29) we 

 again tried a colony of these caterpillars, found on a 

 seedling plum-tree at Lee, in Kent, with black thorn, 

 hawthorn, and many other leaves, and even with those 

 of the bird-cherry; but they would touch nothinp; ex- 

 cept the seedling plum, refusing the grafted varieties.* 



Encampment of the caterpillar of the small ermine (YpononuiUa 

 padiUaJ OK the Sil)eriaii crab. 



A circumstance not a little remark il>Ie in so very 

 nice a feeder is, that in some cases the mother moth 

 will deposit her eggs upon trees not of indigenous 

 growth, and not even of the same genus with her 



* J. R. 



