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mild and serene, my success was greater and more 

 delightful. As all my observations agreed in this 

 one circumstance, I omit to enumerate them; for 

 the antennae being erect as soon as they were 

 put on the alert, they were moved hither and 

 thither by means of loud sounds, for they disregard- 

 ed such as were very small. These they may be 

 said to have drunk in; and if alarmed by new 

 sounds, they rejoiced when they could effect their 

 escape as soon as possible, and preserve life and 

 safety by the most rapid flight. So I have observed 

 very frequently when the antennae were folded up 

 in the Lepturce, Elateres, Curculiones, Papiliones, 

 Apes; nay, even the house-fly, as soon as they 

 were moved and excited by irregular sounds or 

 noise, would erect their antennae, and betake them- 

 selves to flight, without any other excitement. The 

 Sphinges again, and Pkalcence, during the night, 

 fly about the flowers of the marragon and other lily 

 plants, emitting an agreeable smell; during the 

 night, scarcely could a voice be raised then they 

 would turn round very swiftly, and the antennae 

 appear to be, as it were, convulsed. 



" I must not pass over in silence, however, that 

 no evidence more clear could be desired of the sen- 

 sibility of the antennae to quick sounds, than what 

 occurred to me last summer in my garden. I ob- 

 served, in a morning walk, undertaken for the pur- 

 pose of catching insects on the hazels, that, while 



