In the centre is the large green Caterpillar of a Moth, feeding on rose petals ; 

 to the -left the Red-tailed or Lapidary Humble Bee, Bombus lapidarius, 

 revelling in pollen, and to the right is the small Cabbage Butterfly, Pontia 

 Rapce; in the suspended case of spirally-rolled leaves is a smaller Caterpillar, 

 and above are two long-horned Japan Moths, Adda De Geerella, communi- 

 cating by antennal language. 



INSECT SENSES. 



HIS lovely spring- time has bi-ought round a 

 grand festival -a feast of the Senses, which 

 seated, as sisters, at Nature's bounteous board, 

 are now being specially regaled, each with a 

 " dainty dish " peculiarly suited to her liking. 

 That insects are endowed with senses like our own is now 

 almost universally acknowledged. A child can point to the 

 eyes of a Fly or Bee as readily as to those of an ox ; and though 



