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Chrysalis. — Average length, 0.25 ; of the usual form, with a distinct row of 

 teeth above, on the anterior portion of each segment, and a few minute bristles 

 at the extremity and along the sides. It is formed within a silken cocoon, con- 

 structed in one of the three tubes of the seed, and forces itself half way out at 

 one side when the moth is about to emerge. 



Perfect Insect. — The figures I have made are very accurate, and drawn from 

 several fresh specimens : and, as the markings of the moth are somewhat intri- 

 cate, I will not bore you with a tedious scientific description, but simply state 

 that the ground-color of the upper wings is silver-gray, with a slight admixture 

 of brown ; that the still lighter portions, as shown in the figure, are between a 

 cream and a flesh color ; that the dark portions are of a rich Vandyke brown ; 

 and that in particular lights there is a pale, steel-blue or purple hue on certain 

 portions of the wing, and more especially at the lower edge near the thorax, and 

 on the upper half, immediately inside of the dark shade which crosses the mid- 

 dle of the wing. Fringes dark brown, with a deep-blue gloss ; under-wings light 

 brown, becoming deeper around the outside margins ; fringes lighter than the 

 wings ; under-surface of all the wings of a uniform leaden-brown, — that of 

 the upper somewhat darkest, and showing costal marks. When well magnified, 

 the under-wings and under-surfaces appear minutely and beautifully lined trans- 

 versely. Antennas, legs, and body of a silver-brown, with a metallic lustre, es- 

 pecially underneath ; head and thorax variegated like the upper wings, with 

 the eyes, palpi, and tuft dark brown, the scapulae being lighter. 



LIQUID MANURE. 



We think an immense saving could be made if owners of land, whether 

 owners of gardens merely or of more extensive tracts, would only save all 

 the liquid manure about the house and barn. Cart up some muck or loam, 

 and prepare a basin, and let all the slops from the house be put into it. 

 The ashes may be thrown on the same heap ; and, after a while, the whole 

 should be mixed together. Those who keep cattle should so arrange it, 

 that, by the use of muck, all the liquid manure can be absorbed. We 

 should all be surprised to see what results would flow from such careful 

 management of the resources within our reach. 



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