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tached, as if frozen, to the branches. On the lower stems are the cocoon 

 of a Saw Fly, Trickiosoma lucorum, and an old cocoon of the Vapourer Moth, 

 Orgyia antiqua, employed as a winter bed for her eggs. Encircling a twig 

 above the Butterfly is a bracelet-like cluster of the eggs of the Lackey 

 Moth, CUsiocampa newtria 92 



In the apparent death of winter. 



The author, Acheta domestica, in his propensity for burrowing . among the 

 hidden secrets of nature, explores a catacomb of the chrysalides of Moths 

 and Butterflies, with a view of detecting life amidst frost, and snow, and 

 torpor 107 



7. A MILITARY EXPEDITION BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS. 



An assemblage of two species of Ants, Formica rvfa and cunieularia, illustrating 

 the mode in which the former attacks the latter, and seizes its larvae and 

 pupae. In the foreground is an instance, not uncommon in insects, of an 

 individual retaining its vitality after the loss of its body, and above are a 

 winged male and female of the same species 108 



How flows tlie tide of battle f 



Ant Amazons, chieftains of Eufia, hand to hand with the citizens of Fusca, fight- 

 ing for the rape and rescue of infant subjects to be converted by the 



into slaves 125 



8. INSECT AERONAUTS SPIDERS. 



On the left, suspended by its line, is the common Garden Spider, Epeira dia- 

 dema / beneath it is the Labyrinthic Spider, Agelena Idbyrwthica, at the 

 mouth of its hollow snare ; and on the leaf adjoining is the green Long- 

 bodied Spider, Tetragnatlia extensa. The rotund species to the right, and 

 the traveller by the cable bridge, are spinners of geometric webs, of which 

 a small one with its minute artificer, TTieridion, is represented as often 

 seen constructed within the leaf of a nettle. The little urn-shaped body on 

 a leaf near the centre, is a nest of peculiar form guarded by its ingenious 

 weaver 126 



All seem lent upon ascension. 

 A spider aeronaut ascending in his gossamer balloon 139 



9. THE FRESH-WATER SIREN. 



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The Great "Water Beetle, Dytiscns marginalis, and the Diving Water Spider, 



