Seated on the stripped willow-branch to the left is the grotesque caterpillar 

 of the Puss Moss (Cerura vinula), the Moth itself being figured beneath. 

 Below appears the singular masked larva of a Dragon-Fly. The centre of 

 the foreground is occupied by a Dor or Clock Beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius). 

 To the right appear the head and shoulders of another common insect of the 

 same order the Oil Beetle (Proscarabceus) ; and above and between these, with 

 wings extended, is a Devil's Coach-horse, or Rove Beetle (Staphylinus olens). 

 Attached in sphinx-like attitude to the right-hand branch, is the beautiful 

 caterpillar of the Privet Hawk-Moth (Sphinx Ligustri). 



A SUMMER DAY'S DREAM. 



,T was a sultry day in August. Well, nothing 

 could be more generally characteristic of "still 

 life" than the day and hour, about a year 

 ago, when, book in hand, we crept from 

 our little sun-baked domicile, and throwing 

 ourselves under the shade of a huge helm-pollard, plunged 



