Transformation of the Silk-worm, Bomiyx Mori, Eggs, Caterpillar, Cocr^, 

 and Male and Female Moths on the mulberrv. 



USES OF INSECTS. 



EIGH HUNT tells us, in his Indicator, that 

 an Italian Jesuit, Giulio Cordara, has written 

 a Poem upon Insects, which he begins by in- 

 sisting that "those troublesome and abominable 

 little animals" were created only for our 

 annoyance, and that they were certainly not inhabitants of 

 Paradise. Now we scarcely know what to think of the good 

 Father's notion, except that it was hatched, probably, under 

 a swarm of Mosquitos, or under dread of Scorpion or Ta- 

 rantula. 



Spite of our Jesuit's flea-bitten theology, we may infer that 

 amongst the creeping and flying things of first creation, Insects 



