TASTE IN INSECTS. 



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The annual poagrass,wlth the ringlet butterfly iWpparcMa H,perantkus). 

 a, upper side ; b, under side. 



ther die of hunger than touch the leaves of the sallow 

 and vice-versa*. We have observed adehcacy of taste 

 still more remarkable in the caterpillar of the small 

 ermine moth {YponomaUa padella)i. By i^' '.^^ 

 most striking fact, however, connected «'* jms 

 seeming fastidiousness occurs among msects whicti 



* Memoires, i, 319. 

 f See Insect Transformations, p. 205. 



