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longitudinal lines dividing it into spaces, similar 

 to the ambulacral plates of the echinus. 



Now these histories are very suggestive in 

 reference to Mr. Darwin's views. We have two 

 insects very much like each other in form, struc- 

 ture, habit, arid markings. They may indeed 

 be adduced as species which, from their general 

 characters, might be assumed to have a common 

 origin. But nothing can be more opposed to such 

 a view than their history, as detailed above, in 

 the earlier periods of their lives. The eggs, 

 though laid at the same time, are different alto- 

 gether in shape and texture; the caterpillar pro- 

 duced by the one is green, horned, tapering at 

 the end, and without the last pair of pro-legs, 

 and it hybernates on the stem in a web. That 

 of the other is cylindrical, spiny, reddish brown 

 with white stripes, and it hybernates in a ham- 

 mock, made out of the remains of the leaf upon 

 which it had been feeding. What power, except 

 that of special creation, and designing pre-ordi- 

 nation, can for a moment be allowed as that by 

 which the wonderful instinctive faculties of these 

 creatures were produced? And yet such instances 

 of difference in habit could be adduced by hun- 

 dreds of thousands among insects alone. 



The cases I have selected ought to have borne 

 some fruit for Mr. Darwin, whereas they tell 

 against him as strongly as facts can do. If 

 naturalists of the present day would go more into 

 the haunts and seclusions of animal life, and 

 study habits and instincts, instead of wasting 



