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and that it throve exceedingly well on a diet of this insectivorous 

 plant, yet it seems to me improbable that this forms its usual pabu- 

 lum. One of my reasons for this conclusion lies in the fact that no 

 other specimens of this larva were found during a close search, on 

 proba.bly several hundreds of plants, for larvae of Trichoptilus 

 paludicola ; but perhaps other searchers may be more successful. 

 At any rate a certain interest is attached to any insect which 

 subsists with impunity on so essentially entomophagous a plant as 

 sundew. 



