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pupse of moths, a few gall insects, and several species of beetles in 

 the larval stage, for the purpose of observing if the frost had had 

 any injurious effect upon thera. In every species experimented 

 with no fewer were reared than after the mildest of winters. I 

 need not go into details, as it was abundantly apparent in the case 

 of the Turnip Fly, the Corn Grub, the Wire worm, the Gooseberry 

 Sawfly, the Carrot Worm, the Onion Fly, and others, which were 

 all at their destructive woi-k this season as usual, that the cold 

 had little or no injurious effect upon them. 



