The subject of this Vignette is the Parsonage House at Barham, Suffolk, of 

 the late venerable and lamented Mr. Kirby, the distinguished author, in con- 

 junction with Mr. Spence, of the well known "Introduction to Entomology," 

 and of one of the " Bridgewater Treatises." The Wasp in the foreground, 

 employed in cutting off the wings of a fly with a view to its more convenient 

 transport, is illustrative of an anecdote given by Dr. Darwin, and quoted by 

 Kirby, in his observations on two classes of insect activities those prompted 

 solely by Instinct, and those guided by apparent Reason. 



TWO THINGS OF DIFFICULT DEFINITION. 



>ATURE is now daily locking up from obser- 

 vation, although in no spirit of a miser, more 

 and more of her vegetable treasure, and 

 therewith is hidden from our view nearly all 

 , of those insect myriads which filled the sum- 

 mer air. This dearth comparatively of outward objects of in- 

 terest inclines, or in a measure drives, us to seek for others of 



