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: : May, it i i and is of a brown colour, | coloured lines and short streaks, The hi 
and in no one instance out of more than a hundred | May, it is 24 inches long, at d із of ur, t | . e hind 
; i with a chocolate tint, and having a variety of undulating | the middle of the hinder margin prolon 
trials has the rammer been blown out, or, as e: a ща X > t ла, of the bedy is gibbous, | tails, ked with two * P ve ged 
rm it, has gunnin oecu t 
e : and the two preceding are more slender than the rest; | spots, edged with black. The antennæ of th M 
— — —Z * made of tim re E the sixth а-а ent : on е ide а tubercle or pro- not feathered, being only a little stou emp 
be water-proof, and w an ce, and another similar in form occurs on the | females, and very pubescent, but not cili * 
er placed over it, water having been poured hinder extremity of the eighth segment, on its upper under side. The spiral tongue is nearly 
in, the explosion was perfect. is ‘was to show ide, The 589 and square, and the body is antenne. The large size of the wings and 
how to blast rocks under water when lying in the | terminated by two points, which extend beyond the the body cause the moth to fly heavi 
way of navigation. But the water has in trees the | hind pair of prolegs. Like the caterpillars of the geo- | is widely distributed, not onl 
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iron closely, thus preventing loss of power by wind- | jointed legs, attached to fe first three segments of the | twilight, its pale colour and © size 
e charge а а : ; he | more conspicuous object than any other moth, h 0, 
of powder in these cartridges is body; and there is only one pair of ventral, besides 
ut an ounce of Hars’s powder; it is probable anal ae of prolegs ; the latter pap age and powerful, — —— i 
that a fourth part of th der used i a iarity necessary in consequence of the singular GO 
— of blasting will чат by this а habita of the insect, in this preparatory stage of its “Mir i er DALHOUSLE, 38 < 
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be sufficient. In addition to the obvious conve- | 1840106. il i i i : 
nience of theoperationfor clearing land, Capt. NonroN өү wai ara in Me oed niig Samar ә avari ca grim оа pages 
thinks it will be of considerable value rot twigs, &c., to wbieh they cling with amazing perti- | fragrant flowers, “almost. mbling 
ere, on naeity, holding, themselves extended in a right line, | Bourbon Lily (Lilium candidum)" and 
A acad ata ter or leas angle from the stem (as represen рете р mS M 
, car can remove them, but | in the fi „they are repeatedly mistaken | ties, like tropi rehidew, 
which, „when shattered by the cartridge, сап be | for small dead twigs, the small tubercles on the body and Aroidem, upon the limbs of trees. Hens 
taken. away by men, or boys, in small pieces. ding to the deception ; and hence, as soon as they | doubts have been expressed, as used to be the case wit 
But it is not alone in this. manner that the per- | begin to move, on being disturbed, considerable sur- other epiphytes, how far it would be possible to асбе 
iom cartridge may be used. We are informed | prise i» produced, which is not diminished when the | in the cultivation of this shrub. The seeds haye germi 
t at a later period large standing timber was peculiar movements imal are noticed. At nated in England as freely as any, and our young pli 
shattered with perfect facility. Instead of fiting th ging Jenn Save ky De Med legs, © cmo, the | Bays. medo сер іа а coo) moii ы 
: ye E е | fore part of the body in different directions, keeping one, however, expected to see its blossoms 
à i positi If still | straggling shrub which on ita native hills 
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to Ия greatest length, of 6 or 8 feet) produced in cultivation in so 
: " : its fore-legs to the surface on which it is placed, | of timeas three years from the period of the importato 
having kindly given Captain Мовтом permis-|and then detaching its hind legs, it draws them for- | of the The arri this seed was in 
sion to operate on a large old Poplar tree, three | wards till they are almost in contact with the fore ones, spring of 1850. Mr; i dener 
fi root, a hole was bored | the body being formed into a loop during the process House 
he ground, aud the | (whence tbis kind of illars are termed loopers) ; | has the honour of having 
e and iron bolt (whieh bolt. — the duty of | the hind legs are then fixed in their advanced position, noble plant, 
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sus ed f. i i ression is rapidly e ; and, from the motion | 
— crm эчү — — of the bonis having sinis бе appearance of that of | "In January, 1952, I 
»to- it; abou a of со or measuring A sueces- | vigorous 
Р Tet come 2 the pro- — equal s generie name of tra | straight stem about 6 
s f "on™ 0 ) has been given to the insects with | branches, an 
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