TASTE IN INSECTS. 



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The annual poa grass, with the ringlet butterfly (Jlipparchia Hyper- 

 anthus). a, upper side 5 b, under side. 



ther die of hunger than touch the leaves of the sal- 

 low, and vice-versa* We have observed a delicacy of 

 taste still more remarkable in the caterpillar of the small 

 ermine moth {Yjjonomeuta 'padella).'\ By far the 

 most striking fact, however, connected with this 



seemmg fastidiousness occurs 



insects which 



* Memoires, i, 319. 

 t See Insect Transformations, p. 

 XII. 3 



205. 



