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useful to the mother, for they are of a brownish 

 green, and look to all the world like certain grass 



For the habits of hosts of other objects, the various 

 species of wasps, bees, gnats, dragon-flies, &c., we 

 refer our readers to the Eev. J. Or. Wood's ' Insects 

 at Home/ and Staveley's ' British Insects ! a very 

 good all-round book. We only pretend to select 

 just such objects as we think offer themselves most 

 prominently, and which no intelligent pedestrian 

 can do otherwise than notice. There is no lack of 

 works in each department, ready to the hands of the 

 young entomologist. Among these, Mr. E. 0. Rye's 

 illustrated book on ' British Beetles ' stands fore- 

 most. This we can say, in commencing the study 

 of entomology, a youth will lay up many hours of 

 pure unalloyed happiness, and have his thoughts 

 drawn out into fuller communion with the life that 

 fills land and air and sea with its presence, and 

 which is thus the best assurance of the Love that 

 evolved and the Care that supports its manifold 

 forma ! 



