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sides with hairs, bent a little towards each 

 other so as to form a concavity. The 

 under wings in both sexes are round, not 

 pointed at the end, like the upper ones, 

 but have at the brim angular black dots 

 like the outer wings, and in the middle a 

 brownish spot. 



The female does not fly in the day, 

 nor even a great way at night-time, on ac- 

 count of its heaviness ; but it creeps fre- 

 quently about on the trees, and seeks for 

 a sheltered place under the brandies or 

 elsewhere, to lay its eggs. If it does 

 not find a convenient place on one tree 

 it comes down and creeps up to another. 

 Where there are young fruit trees, it lays 

 the eggs on the poles to which these are 

 fastened, and particularly on the place 

 below the fastenings ; in the old trees 

 it puts them in the crevices of the 

 bark ; in gardens on the espalliers, or on 

 hedges and other places where they have 

 a little shelter. When tlie eggs are laid, 

 which are globular and shining white, 

 they do not only stick very fast to the 

 place where they are put, by a viscid sub- 



