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are larve of Macroura.” 
4, Insecta Maderensia, being an Account of the Insects of the Islands 
of the Madeiran Group; by T. Vernon Wottasrton, » ERS. 
634 pp., 4to, with 13 well-filled colored plates, London, 1854. John 
Van Voorst. 
On the Variation of Species with especial reference to the Insecta, fol- 
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The first of these works is an elegant quarto volume containing full — 
descriptions, of the Insects of the Madeira Islands, with remarks on their 
pon the tow 
though clear and cold at night, seldom reveal themselves during the fe! 
with sufficient constancy (through the heavy canopy of cloud w 
vine, or a stray bird hymning forth its matin song to the ascending suD} 
feel the cool influence of the carly dawn on the upland sward, and to 
