The examples of slow and swift-footed beetles here given, are the Oil-Beetle 

 (Meloe vulgaris), laboriously creeping up, and the Tiger-Beetle (Cicindela 

 campestris), rapidly descending the sandy bank. Below, is a fast walker, 

 almost runner, among hairy caterpillars, and above, on a lime-tree twig, sits 

 the statety larva of the Lime Hawk Moth (Smerinthus Tilias), like the rest of 

 its Sphinx-like brethren, slow-footed and averse to motion. The two flies are 

 of a flower-resorting species, called vibrating (Scioptera vibrans\ which are 

 distinguished by red heads, scarlet eyes, black-tipped wings, and that qui- 

 vering or vibrating motion to which they owe their name. 



INSECT MOVEMENTS. 



,N their endless variety of movement, the Insect 

 races resemble, equal, and in many cases sur- 

 pass, nearly every other animated tribe of 

 earth, air, and water. They walk with the 

 quadruped ; fly with the bird ; crawl with the 

 reptile; swim with the fish ; do all, in short, but march erect- 



