INSECT MISCELLANIES. 



Fox-moth ( Lasiocampa rubi), and caterpillar. 



their mandibles into the offender's body. We have 

 had a brood of the caterpillars of the cinnabar moth 

 {Callimorpha Jacobcerc^ Stephens), which, notwith- 

 standing tlieir jerking and^ writhing, devoured one 

 another, till only one out of ten remained.* 



To return to Shakspeare's cricket, it is well known 

 to every boy that the field one, of a fine green colour 

 {Jlcrida viridissima) , which during the summer 



* J. R. 



