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the two plants here grow together, and the would- 

 be inspector of blackberry leaves has to be very 

 careful lest he should lay hold of the wrong plant. 



But if, on the last day of April or the first or 

 second of May, one has patience to edge one's 

 way along the bank, holding to the fence with 

 one hand and stretching out the other, grabbing 

 with judicious care, one may reach berry-leaves 

 done up in a suspicious style. Pick them and 

 open the leaves so bound together or folded, and 

 you will find within each bundle a small green 

 worm with a darker head, one of the Tortricidce, 

 or PyralidcB) for I believe authors differ some- 

 what in regard to the two families. At all events 

 such worms are destined to become pretty little 

 moths some day. 



But, if you find the right leaf, on its back you 

 may have the delight of seeing a family of little 

 bugs just hatched and sitting together on top of 

 the eggs they have come out of. I have found 

 the same kind of eggs on the back of a honey- 

 suckle leaf in my yard. There are about fourteen 

 eggs in a group, and they are very pretty, barrel- 

 shaped, of a pure white, but marked with red 

 before the inhabitants come out. Hardly one 

 sixteenth of an inch high are the little barrels, 

 looking a little like the pictures of the egg-bar- 

 rels of the Harlequin Cabbage-bug, Murgantia 

 histrionica, or the Calico-back, but lacking the 

 black hoops and bung-holes of the eggs of that 



