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The Tortoise-shell Butterfly, Vanessa urticce. Suspended beneath the 

 parapet of the wall is the chrysalis of the Cabbage butterfly, Pontia brassicce. 

 Above is the hairy caterpillar of the Tiger Moth, Arctia caja. To the right 

 are three caterpillars of the Magpie Moth, Abraxas grossulariata, attached, as 

 if frozen, to the branches. On the lower stems are the cocoon of a Saw Fly, 

 Trichiosoma lucorum, and an old cocoon of the Vapourer Moth, Orgyia antiqua, 

 employed as a winter bed for her eggs. Encircling a twig above the Butter- 

 fly is a bracelet-like cluster of the eggs of the Lackey Moth, Clisiocampa 

 neustria. 



LIFE IN DEATH. 



E were loath to begin the year by contemplation 

 of our Insect subjects while buried in a sleep 

 wearing Death's perfect semblance; but we 

 can look at them now, and their dreamless 

 slumber inspires no corresponding dulness, 

 but only curious expectancy ; for they are about to awake, 



