CATERPILLARS. 



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examining the leaves of nettles which appear folded 

 edge to edge, in July and August, the caterpillar may- 

 be readily found. 



Ntsts of the Hesperia Malvcc, with CateiJiiHar, Chrysalis., and Butterflies- 



Another butterfly {Hesperia rnalvce) is met with 

 on dry banks where mallows grow, in May, or even 

 earlier, and also in August, but is not indigenous. 

 The caterpillar, which is grey, with a black head, 

 and four sulphur-coloured spots on the neck, folds 

 around it the leaves of the mallow, upon which 

 it feeds. There is nothing, however, peculiarly 

 different in its proceedings from those above de- 

 scribed; but the care with which it selects and rolls 

 up one of the smaller leaves, when it is about to be 

 transformed into a chrysalis, is worthy of remark; i t 



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