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that has haunted Hartley Wood for so long a time. Many 

 hundreds of people, horse and foot, attended the dogs to see the 

 deer unharboured ; but though the huntsmen drew Hartley Wood, 

 and Long Coppice, and Shrubwood, and Temple Hangers, and 

 in their way back Hartley and Wardle-ham Hangers, yet no stag 

 could be found. 



The royal pack, accustomed to have the deer turned out before 

 them, never drew the coverts with any address and spirit, as many 

 people that were present observed ; and this remark the event has 

 proved to be a true one. For as a person was lately pursuing a 

 pheasant that was wing-broken in Hartley Wood, he stumbled 

 upon the stag by accident, and ran in upon him as he lay con- 

 cealed amidst a thick brake of brambles and bushes. WHITE. 



OBSERVATIONS ON INSECTS AND 

 VERMES. 



INSECTS IN GENERAL. 



THE day and night insects occupy the annuals alternately; the 

 papilios, muscae, and apes, are succeeded at the close of day by 

 phalaenae, earwigs, woodlice, etc. In the dusk of the evening, 

 when beetles begin to buz, partridges begin to call ; these two 

 circumstances are exactly coincident. 



Ivy is the last flower that supports the hymenopterous and dip- 

 terous insects. On sunny days quite on to November they swarm 

 on trees covered with this plant ; and when they disappear, 

 probably retire under the shelter of its leaves, concealing them- 

 selves between its fibres and the trees which it entwines. 4 WHITE. 



This I have often observed, having seen bees and other winged 



4 The ivy is haunted at night by swarms of moths and other insects. I have 

 seen an ivy bush, on a warm summer night, literally moving with the number 

 of moths which were feeding on it. The eyes of the larger ones glowed like 

 sparks of fire. 



