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bright as the sky above us, bright as the drop of sparkling 

 dew intensifying heaven's blue, is the smile of those that 

 love us. 



Lep. Oh, help me ! hold me, friends— I sink — I faint — 

 how hard to bear is perfect happiness ! 



(And here J awoke.) 



Art. XLI. — Remarks on various Insects. By Delta. 



Leandre (a Dandin.) 



II est fort ignorant. 



Ulntime (a Dandin.) 



Non pas, monsieur, non pas. 

 J'endormirai, monsieur, tout aussi bien qu'un autre. 



Racine. Les Plaideurs. 



Sir, — In a former letter to you, I gave a short account of 

 the habits of Nonagria Typlice ; but as that was rather imper- 

 fect, I beg leave to add a few words to it, trusting that you 

 will not consider me to be trespassing too much on your pages. 

 In that letter I left the pupa shut up in the Typha stem, like 

 damsels were in former times in the trunks of trees, and other 

 such localities ; and so far as you could judge from my story, 

 the moth had no more chance of escaping than they had, unless 

 some entomologist acted the part of the knights errant, or the 

 magicians of those days. But there is a way opened for it, 

 of which it avails itself in due season. This I will now 

 explain. 



When the larva attacks a plant of the Typha, it eats down- 

 wards just in the centre, until it reaches nearly to the root, 

 often some inches below the water. By this time it has almost 

 attained its full growth ; but if it were to undergo its metamor- 

 phosis there, how could the moth escape ? Upwards it would 

 be impossible ; because the larva, when it entered, was very 

 young, perhaps not near half grown, and the opening it made 

 is far too small for the size of the moth ; and were it to con- 



