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rear them within doors will, in eleven cases out of 

 twelve, be a failure, your kindness will only cause their 

 death. 



If the tyro should not have convenience for replanting 

 the roots of those plants in which the various internal 

 root-feeding larvae are, it will be better for him to defer 

 their collection until the spring, than to risk the loss 

 both of his time and collected larvae by collecting them 

 now. 



And now the time of year has arrived in which the 

 tyro may look back upon the results and achievements 

 of the past season ; he has to arrange his captures, note 

 remarkable species or varieties, together with anything 

 he may have observed of their habits which may be 

 likely to be useful to himself or other people; i. e. 

 whether any leaf has been mined in a peculiar way ? 

 or any shoot been distorted in an unusual manner by a 

 larva which has left the marks of its operations, but has 

 itself decamped ? whether any plant has been operated 

 on by larvae on which they have not been observed 

 before ? and, lastly, whether any marks of larvae already 

 known to you, but which you have not before observed 

 in your neighbourhood, or of species for which you 

 have been too late in distant localities, have been ob- 

 served in localities nearer home than those in which 

 they usually occur ? 



This last remark I think necessary, as I believe we 

 frequently make excursions far into the country for the 

 larvae of many species that might be conveniently col- 

 lected within a short distance of our residences, if we 

 would only pay a little attention to entomological mat- 



